In the past, there has been a tendency among some StateDepartment officials and other informed observers of theinternational scene to regard espionage as a largely irrelevant game,played between the KGB and the CIA in an effort to one-up each other.But this idea that spying is a fit subject for fiction but hardlyworth the attention of serious diplomats has been overtaken by recentevents.
The appalling damage done by the Walker spy family, by theHoward defection from the CIA and by the Pelton revelations to Russiaof the National Security Agency's code secrets has now beencompounded to an unknown extent by the betrayal of their trust byMarine guards in Moscow and …
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