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SENTENCED. EARL PITTS, 44, FBI turncoat who pleaded guilty to spying for the Russians; to 27 years in prison, longer than prosecutors had recommended; in Alexandria, Va. Pitts is only the second bureau agent ever convicted of espionage...
...American Dreyfus. Yet the weight of historical evidence indicates that Hiss was what he steadfastly denied ever being: a member of the communist underground and a Soviet spy. What made his case so intriguing was that his profile seemed at odds with the stereotypical idea of a grubby turncoat. His patrician grace had somehow survived a family life streaked with tragedy. His father, a wholesale grocer, committed suicide when Alger was two; a sister, Mary, also killed herself. Yet Hiss's advancement in life seemed blessed. After graduating with honors from Johns Hopkins University, Hiss at Harvard Law School...
Both "Big Paul" Castellano (Richard Sarafian), famously whacked by Gotti soldiers outside a Manhattan steak house in 1985, and Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano (William Forsythe), whose turncoat chattiness with the feds ultimately landed Gotti his life sentence, are portrayed as the real evildoers here. Why? Because they were Michael Milken greedy. While Gotti's silk-and-cashmere flamboyance may have embodied the underworld side of '80s excess, Castellano and Gravano were, in this film's view, the true moral lepers because they threw around terms like "joint venture" and "bottom line" and believed in the coldhearted notion that...
...dramatic repositionings of his career: an attempt to return to the centrist New Democrat mode of his 1992 campaign. But there is risk as well that Clinton will find himself virtually without allies. His speech sent his own party into convulsions, with some congressional Democrats privately calling him a turncoat and vilifying Morris as a kind of serpent whispering evil in the President's ear. Republicans, having grudgingly praised Clinton at first, were suggesting within a few days that he was a fraud. Their evidence: a Congressional Budget Office estimate that Clinton's 10-year plan to balance the budget...
...penetrate these kinds of systems, so why would they trust their own secrets on them?" asks a computer expert who works for the cia. Only in the past two years has the Directorate allowed its sensitive files to be put on the CIA's main computer system. After agency turncoat Aldrich Ames was uncovered, the Directorate took its E-mail address list off the main computer system, fearing that future moles could browse through it to identify case officers. (Fortunately for the cia, Ames told agency investigators after he was captured that the Russians never asked him to hack...