I really can't believe that Army sergeant who, while working for the US National Security Agency, allegedly sold secrets to the USSR for a mere $60,000 (because he was angry and impoverished by his divorce settlement). That's an awfully low price! Given the Cold War's role in inducing the old USSR to demand large numbers of "Western" spies, the supply of spies must have been quite large to keep the price so low. And to think that the "security agencies" haven't found them yet. Perhaps their prescence in the security agencies themselves is what prevented their discovery. It also fit with what I told an FBI (or Secret Service) agent back in the 1980s when he asked about the background of one of my students. "He isn't a Republican or very interested in money, so it's unlikely he's a security risk." (The days of the ideology-driven spies -- Klaus Fuchs, etc. -- had long passed.) Later, I found out that the student was gay. If the agent found out, the kid probably didn't get the job. (bastards!) Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html
