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Apart from that stroke of bad timing, this authoritative reference book rides the espionage headlines exceedingly well. The Soviets' CIA mole Aldrich Ames is here, as is hot-off-the-press documentation gleaned from the long-secret U.S. "Venona" decrypts of Russian intelligence, which pretty much confirm the guilt of the late Alger Hiss. More than 2,000 entries deal with the history of spying, the complexities of cryptography and trade jargon (dry clean: to determine whether one is under surveillance; pianist: a clandestine radio operator; swallow: Russian term for a female agent assigned to seduce a target; raven...
...National Security Agency unwrapped one of its oldest secrets -- Project Venona, a World War II code-breaking effort that cracked Soviet cables and revealed the existence of an extensive spy network in the U.S. to steal classified nuclear information. Among the members of the Soviet ring apparently identified in the cables: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whose execution for espionage in 1953 has been the subject of endless investigation and debate...
...military personnel in Italy. The Arcadia, Fla., native is quiet and proper, and lived in unspectacularstyle. His career includes decorations for combat in Viet Nam and commands in Germany and at Fort Hood texas but he had been in Italy less than 18 months and was outranked at the Venona base by its Italian commander. A U.S. official speculated that his abduction was a "symbolic" act: "He's American he's a general, he's part of NATO...