Rogue Agent: Marty Martin's Less Public Roles

Marty Martin took bows at Sundance for his role as a top CIA counterterrorism operative, dramatized in the riveting HBO documentary "Manhunt."  But he's also been popping up in less savory, little noticed roles since 2007, including, now, an FBI investigation into shadowy right-wing forces behind allegations that New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat, patronized prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.  Apparently you can take Marty Martin out of the CIA, but you can't take the CIA out of him.

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Wigged Out in Moscow

Everybody take a breath.

There's nothing special about the Russian security service's bust of a reported American spy -- beyond the weird paraphernalia that the FSB says it captured with the suspect, one Ryan C. Fogle, officially third secretary at the American embassy.

Ted Danson wouldn't be caught dead in one of those wigs.

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The Day Our Spies Started Dying (Video)

Watch former CIA spy catcher Sandra Grimes recount the chilling days of 1985 when the agency's secret assets in Moscow started disappearing, and her team's desperate search to find the mole -- Aldrich Ames.  (Video starts at about 18:45.)

Useless Big Brother

What good were all the intelligence-sharing  task forces in Boston?
Maybe they should get their heads out of their computer screens. And go back to index cards and hallway water coolers.
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CIA's Pick to Run Spies: No Woman No Cry

The CIA's pick to head the CIA's National Clandestine Service was identified in a tweet Wednesday as Francis (Frank) Archibald, 57, head of the Latin America Division since about 2011 and a paramilitary specialist.
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Who Are the Spies?

Do you know what a "spy" is? Sure, you say: Clown question.
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Tsarnaev: My Generation

BY SALLY FARRINGTON
SpyTalk Writer

When I first heard about the college kid behind the bombings in Boston, I was initially surprised and curious about where he went to school.

Like Dzhokar Tsarnaev, I'm a college student from liberal Massachusetts.

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