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The article discusses efforts by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to identify an alleged Soviet agent reported to be working within the FBI's ranks. The mole was reported by Soviet agent Aleksei Kulak in 1962. Details on the roles of FBI counterintelligence agents Joseph J. Hengemuhle and Joseph J. Palguta in the investigation are presented. According to the author, the FBI may have identified the mole but was unwilling to prosecute him or comment on the case.

The article discusses United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee Douglas Groat, who served in the Special Operations Division, known as the Shop, beginning in 1982. It examines his work as a burglar and lock picker, noting that he participated in operations in Europe, South America, Africa, and the Middle East. The author comments on Groat's issues with the CIA after he alleged poor advance work for a mission in the Middle East in 1990. Groat's negotiations for a retirement package and his trial and imprisonment for extortion are also considered.

The article tells the story of a Virginia native, study-abroad student, Glenn Duffie Shriver, an American citizen who was recruited by the Chinese government to spy inside the U.S. Cetral Intelligence Agency (CIA), ended up in federal prison for espionage. It offers a personal and educational background of Shriver and how he ended up working as a spy for Chinese Military Intelligence Department of the People's Liberation Army (MID). Shriver was arrested and indicted for lying to the CIA.

Presents information on several capital cities that offer spy-tourism attraction. Washington, D.C.; London, England; Budapest, Hungary.

Investigates a spy scandal in the United States in which a Chinese individual was able to acquire secret documents on the Trident II missile, the most advanced nuclear weapon in the American arsenal. Political ramifications of the scandal; Speculation that the spying incident may have been part of a broader Chinese effort to intimidate Taiwan.

Features Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent Aldrich Ames who was arrested with his wife as Russian spies. Sale of $2.5 million worth of secrets to Russia; Life imprisonment; Ames as chief of the Soviet counterintelligence branch of the CIA; Alcohol abuse; Recruiting duties; Visits to the Soviet Embassy.

Focuses on the investigation of the espionage activities of Russian Igor Yakovlevich Melekh in the U.S., as of November 1967. Information about the city of Chicago wanted by Melekh; Overview of a U-2 reconnaissance incident in Russia; Role of espionage in the presidential campaign in the U.S.

Focuses on the British espionage establishment. Mansions of M.I.6 espionage organization; Confusion about the state's intelligence organizations; Indication of intelligence expenditures.

Provides information on the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, better known as the KGB. Appointment of Yuri V. Andropov as the chairman of the Committee for State Security of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union; Possible reasons behind the dismissal of Vladimir Y. Semichastny as head of the KGB; Background on the size, responsibilities and methods of the KGB.

Reports on the seizure of the U.S. spy ship Pueblo by North Korean gun boats in Wonsan, North Korea. Views expressed by former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower regarding the spy activities; Billing of the seizure as one among series of cold war incidents between U.S. allies and Soviet allies; Reason behind acknowledging that the ship is an intelligence ship; Statement given by the U.S. Navy regarding operational control of the ship; Procedure of how information collected by the ship is passed to the U.S. intelligence departments; Difference of opinion between North Korea and the U.S. for distance limits under international waters law; Question about the issue of espionage regarding the U-2 flight over the Soviet Union.

Discusses espionage between the United States and Russia. Secrets of the United States that are desirable to spies, including those of a military, technological and economic nature; Issue of codes developed by the U.S. National Security Agency.