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This is the third movie with Jack as its hero, so he is a known quantity -- a humanist spook with an overdeveloped moral sense -- but Ford, playing the part for the second time, knows how to keep his earnestness fresh. Meanwhile, Donald Moffat's President is tough and unctuous, his National Security Adviser (Harris Yulin) is tough and tense, and his chief aide (Henry Czerny) is tough and tough...
...that, the CIA officials insisted, the Russians must honor a previous promise to cut the number of their spies operating in the U.S. by half and identify their top intelligence officers in New York City and San Francisco. Most important, Moscow would have to recall Alexander Lysenko, its chief spook in Washington, voluntarily...
...story of Aldrich H. Ames' $2.7 million, 7 year spying spree comes to light in dribs and drabs, James "Jesus" Angleton must be doing cartwheels in his grave. Angleton, only posthumously biographized, but long lengendary in the spook community, was the CIA's both hopelessly paranoid and devastatingly effective spy-catcher. He was a man who for thirty years drove himself (and others) crazy trying to stop spy scandals before they got started...
...National Security Agency, the supersecret electronic eavesdropping and code- breaking service at Fort Meade, Maryland. He liked that so much it took a direct order from Ronald Reagan to move him to the deputy directorship of the CIA, where his probity was needed to balance the unpredictable chief spook, William Casey. In the process, Inman became the first naval intelligence specialist to reach four-star rank...
...slain agent was a seasoned veteran of service in Russia, Turkey, Ethiopia and Sudan. "Freddie was an enormously charming guy. You liked him, , you liked to tell him secrets," said a diplomat who served with Woodruff in Africa. "He was an aggressive, old-fashioned, street-smart spook. When everything was falling apart, you could ask him to get the hell out there and find out what's going...