Word: spike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half-crazed Soviet spy master who spells out his Plan is pure fiction, the creation of Journalists Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss in their new novel The Spike. The plan itself, according to U.S. intelligence experts, is all too factual. "Disinformation" refers mostly to covert falsification tactics used by the Soviet Union to further its propaganda aims. Examples of disinformation-a forged U.S. Army field manual, bogus vice-presidential statements critical of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat-occasionally surface in the Western press...
...Firestarter, King (1 last week) 2. Rage of Angels, Sheldon (2) 3. The Fifth Horseman, Collins & Lapierre (6) 4. The Tenth Commandment, Sanders (3) 5. Fanny, Jong (4) 6. The Bourne Identity, Ludlum (7) 7. Random Winds, Plain (9) 8. The Ninja, Lustbader 9. The Origin, Stone 10. The Spike, De Borchgrave & Moss...
...SPIKE ITSELF is a newspaper term that refers to the metal spike on which editors impale copy they decide not to print--for different reasons, including when they do not sympathize with its politics. It implies bias by omission, and calls into question the meaning of "objectivity" in journalism. The two celebrated writers who wrote the book have a straightforward answer: Objectivity doesn't exist. When Hockney first discovers the Soviets may be influencing the American media, his editors shelve the story. In the authors' bipolar world, if you're not with us, you're against...
...really cares if the vice president of the United States in an unwitting Soviet dupe? We probably have a few of our own in the Kremlin anyway. The Spike is a provocative book a cut above routine spy thrillers and conspiratorial yarns, but it overflows with self-important people who think they are making a difference, pulling the strings and waging the real war. For all we know, they are. But The Spike fails to prove it. It doesn't sufficiently create that someone-is-watching-you quality, it does not suck you in and scare you; it makes...
...Princess Daisy, Krantz (6) 7. The Ninja, Lustbader (8) 8. The Origin, Stone 9. The Spike, De Borchgrave & Moss (5) 10. The Fifth Horseman, Collins & Lapierre