Word: turncoat
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...Pickard spent much of his career in the bureau's flagship New York office, where he played a crooked accountant in the Abscam undercover case and later supervised the World Trade Center bombing investigation, the extradition and prosecution of terrorist mastermind Ramzi Yousef and the espionage case against FBI turncoat Earl Pitts...
...abruptly resumed as before. In hindsight, FBI officials believe the reason is obvious. In 1992, the FBI and CIA assembled a "backroom" team to figure out why a series of operations had been blown. They suspected a high-level mole. Eventually their stealthy investigations led them to CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames in 1994. Though the backroom hunt was a closely held secret, the ever curious Hanssen might have figured it out from stray details. Even after Ames' arrest, the mole ferreting went on, leading to the 1996 arrest of CIA employee Harold Nicholson, then of FBI agent Earl Pitts. That...
...Turncoat Crimson sportswriter and Council representative Dan Fernandez began a bench-clearing brawl after leaning over the plate to take a Dave Newman offering...
Lampoon clean-up hitter Matt Ebbel hit a solid groundout to third, though, and Crimson turncoat Danny Habib, playing for the Lampoon, did manage to connect for a towering foul-out to the catcher in the sixth inning...
DIED. TOMMASO BUSCETTA, 71, Italian organized-crime turncoat; of cancer; at an undisclosed U.S. witness-protection location. He testified in the New York "pizza connection" heroin-smuggling trial of the 1980s and helped put away hundreds of mobsters on both sides of the Atlantic...