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Washington IN 1995, a middle-aged Chinese man walked into a C.I.A. station in Southeast Asia and offered up a trove of secret Chinese documents. Among them was a file containing the top-secret design of the American W-88 nuclear warhead that sits atop the missiles carried by Trident submarines. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Washington A ring of Russian agents who look and sound like ordinary Americans! Suburban spies with orders to infiltrate United States ''policy-making circles'' and report to Moscow! So, the cold war is back? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Comments on secrecy at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Discusses the plans of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency in improving operations against terrorism.

Argues that spying between the United States and Russia will continue in line with the continuing desire of both countries to learn each other's secrets.

Opinion. Focuses on the undercover operations of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with special emphasis on the CIA backed Kurdish undercover mission in northern Iraq. Reference to CIA director John M. Deutch's request for more undercover operations; Aim of CIA backed mission in Iraq; Information on CIA operation in Iraq in 1960s; Details on other CIA operations in Middle East.

Opinion. Argues that government deception lead to public mistrust. Reason the Air Force lied about sightings of unidentified flying objects in Roswell, New Mexico; Who defended the government's right to lie; Reason the United States went to war in Vietnam.