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Some wise hands in Washington have learned to avoid secrets at all cost. Last month David Margolis, a 40-year veteran of the Justice Department nicknamed "Yoda" because of his deep authority in the building, testified that he actively avoided learning details of sub-rosa White House involvement in the U.S. Attorney firings...
...coarser superiors have motives as complex as they are nasty: to please a party boss, to tease out scenarios of voyeuristic lust and, well, because they can. Wiesler has another reason to spy and pry: he's good at it. So when Dreyman decides to write a sub-rosa exposé for a West German magazine, the spy is all ears...
Rimington remained anonymous until 1992, when she was appointed MI5's first female director general. Previously the position was so sub-rosa that the agency didn't even acknowledge it existed, but in an attempt at post--cold war openness and, Rimington suspects, a fit of self-congratulatory pride at hiring a woman, Rimington was outed by her own government. "People were astonished," she says, laughing. "Particularly my neighbors who just thought I was a quiet old lady." Being the first public face of a counterespionage agency made her a high-value target for terrorists--the I.R.A. was very active...
...stalled peace process. There could be another explanation. The U.S. is currently debating whether to let Jerusalem purchase U.S.-built supercomputers for Technion, an Israeli scientific institute. The application is opposed by the Defense Department and the CIA on the grounds that Technion scientists participate in Israel's sub-rosa nuclear and missile programs...
...them is former Soviet Spy Christopher Boyce). With a roughhewn, 6-ft. 5-in. physique, Wilson exudes a sense of physical power despite his confinement. He is eager to talk about what he claims were his professional and commercial ties with several of the individuals implicated in the sub-rosa schemes run by Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. In particular, Wilson mentions retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and former high-level CIA Officials Thomas G. Clines and Theodore G. Shackley. All of them, he says (and has said previously to prosecutors who did not believe him), were partners...