Word: agent
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...biggest catch so far is Klaus Kuron, 54, a senior West German counterintelligence officer who was responsible for turning East German spies working in West Germany into double agents. When Kuron surrendered last week, he confessed that he had been a double agent himself, providing the Stasi with top-secret information over the past eight years, including the identities of those who had worked for him. The Stasi paid Kuron $2,500 a month for his disloyalty. "That is the highest goal there is -- to put an agent exactly where Kuron was," said a shaken Heribert Hellenbroich, a former chief...
...anything that interested me as Barbarians had." But before long, he was probing the story behind American Express's extraordinary campaign against Safra, which ended last year when the company apologized to the banker and paid $8 million in damages to him and his favorite charities. "I told my agent and publisher that I was working on something that could be the next book," says Burrough. When the Journal published his 10,000-word account on Sept. 24, HarperCollins enthusiastically agreed. "The story came out on a Monday," Burrough said, "and the deal was signed Tuesday night." Compared with...
...write somewhat the way a good murder mystery is written," he explains. "My stories sometimes read as if ((LBO king)) Henry Kravis were approaching with an ax instead of a buyout offer." Burrough may have hit the peak of fascination with 1980s whodunits. As the 1990s wear on, his agent Andrew Wylie says with literary disdain, readers are likely to become more interested in advice books on "how to stave off disaster...
...history, the other from Palestinian civilians who clearly have a political agenda. Neither source can be considered unbiased or even reliable. But the Israeli government "facts" were fed to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), known as the Israeli Lobby. AIPAC's executive director is a registered foreign agent of Israel, and AIPAC's job is to support the Israeli government regardless of its actions and to minimize damage to Israel's reputation. AIPAC has a student affiliate at Harvard called HIPAC which shares the same goals. Thus, it is no coincidence that HIPAC's "Facts about a Tragedy...
...SINKER by Len Deighton (HarperCollins; $21.95). The master plotter winds up his six-volume espionage saga about British agent Bernard Samson and his spying wife Fiona, whose defection to East Germany is finally explained...