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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potentially spectacular one at that. A branch chief in the CIA counterterrorism center, he is the highest ranking agency officer ever charged with espionage. He is also proof of something the intelligence community has long feared and expected: that Aldrich Ames, the career CIA officer and career Soviet spy, wasn't the last of the moles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHER OR TRAITOR | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...agency insists that Nicholson's arrest is a vindication of safeguards put into place after Ames had evaded detection for so long. For years the CIA ignored signs that Ames was on the Soviet payroll. Now any personal troubles or financial windfalls are noted in an officer's file as "anomalies." Those can cluster into an incriminating "matrix" that might lead to a full investigation. "At any given time we have literally dozens and dozens of cases at every agency that raise questions," says FBI Director Louis Freeh. "Sometimes it's just a polygraph, and sometimes someone has plunked down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHER OR TRAITOR | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

Russia has its own concerns with another international grouping: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO has always been and will remain a mutual defense pact, but it has also always been much more than that. During the cold war, even while attending to its principal job of deterring the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, NATO helped to consolidate civilian-led democracy in Spain and to keep the peace between Greece and Turkey. As NATO adapts its mission and expands its membership to meet new challenges and opportunities, it will be a positive factor in the promotion of democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGING THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

Strobe Talbott, who served as the Clinton Administration's diplomat in charge of the former Soviet Union, is currently Deputy Secretary of State. He covered Russia regularly as a correspondent and columnist for TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGING THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...style of rule combines charisma with a flair for draconian repression. (As part of an "authenticity campaign" in the '70s to divest Zaire of its European taint, he outlawed bow ties, public kissing and Christmas.) But he also successfully marketed his country to the West as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in Africa, until the collapse of the Soviet Union robbed him of his usefulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBUTU: IS HIS TIME ENDING? | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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