Word: spooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...didn't have nostalgia, but I went through some of the trauma that the spooks had definitely been through. Was there nothing there? Maybe it was all a waste of life. Maybe I should have just been running a boy's club. I had this weird kind of sub-life in some part of my head, where I sort of kept up with events from a spy's-eye view. I was never a very good spook; I was definitely a writer who took up spying rather than a spy who took up writing...
Were he still alive, James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's consummate cold war spook, would have launched a full-scale internal investigation, condemning a conversation of any substance between Primakov, a longtime Kremlin Middle East expert, and Woolsey, a specialist on nuclear and conventional arms control, as treasonous. During most of their careers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union struggled for every square foot of terrain anywhere on earth that one might win from the other. With nuclear war in the balance, Moscow and Washington focused most of their spies' efforts, and spent most of their intelligence budgets, on each...