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...American delegation in Moscow recently, a Russian intelligence officer revealed intimate knowledge of a 1974 mission in which the U.S. salvage ship GLOMAR EXPLORER raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine in the central Pacific. American experts said such knowledge could only have come from a classified film of the supersecret operation. The still unanswered question: How did Moscow get the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy Vs. Spy | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

Booksellers are grinding their teeth over several big Ross Perot books that have been canceled on the eve of publication. But something bigger may be coming soon. PUTNAM is preparing to ship more than 100,000 copies of a supersecret book in late August. The publisher is keeping both the subject and author completely confidential. According to buyers for the major chains, Putnam executives have been whispering that it is a biography of a major Washington official that contains information so explosive it could cause his or her resignation. This has prompted a guessing game within the industry, but Putnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes the Stealth Manuscript | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...Solomatin, the KGB's Rome chief from 1976 to 1982, claims that Soviet intelligence viewed the Vatican as a hotbed of diplomatic secrets. Trouble was, once the KGB had recruited its St. Peter's agent, it had a little difficulty controlling him: apparently his religious convictions interfered with his supersecret political mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Monty Python Know About This? | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...Washington Post and Los Angeles Times correspondents accompanying him on a week-long trip through the Middle East. Dugan, a West Point graduate, talked in considerable detail about classified operational plans, including the use of Saudi bases for American B-52 flights in wartime and training routines for the supersecret F-117A Stealth fighters. In comments deeply distressing to America's allies, Dugan advocated bombing Iraqi cities --including downtown Baghdad--and said, "I don't expect to be concerned" about political constraints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready, Aim, Fired | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...information and it was traced back, our informant would have been killed. The next time we wouldn't know if we were on the hit list." Another allegation is that, contrary to official denials that any Mossad field agents are in the U.S., there are about 25 in a supersecret division known as Al, which is Hebrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Spilled the Beans | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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