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Three Windows Into Spydom's World of Mirrors


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Townhall:

Austin Bay
7/28/10

Events this month opened three windows into the mirror world of espionage and covert operations.

The three windows are opaque and narrow, but that's always the case with the spy business, a shadowy enterprise where the source (or sources) of light should also be regarded with suspicion.

Window One, Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri's return to Iran, is reminiscent of a Cold War spy novel where double agents steal, deal and often die. This current affair, however, involves a flesh-and-blood human being, not a character, and the driving issue behind the incident, the Iranian dictatorship's intent to build nuclear weapons, may result in a deadly war.

The Washington Post opened Window Two when it ran a series of articles examining America's ever-expanding intelligence bureaucracies.

Window Three on the world of mirrors may be the most intriguing: the WikiLeaks scandal, involving the unauthorized Internet release of thousands of U.S. government documents.

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