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The Spies at State

The case surrounding Fidel’s alleged mole, says spy novelist Joseph Finder, is less important for the breach—Cuba?—than the huge security hole it exposes at the lie detector-averse State Department.

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There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned spy story. Especially a real-life one: Last week, a retired State Department official, Walter Kendall Myers, and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, were arrested and charged with spying for Fidel Castro for almost three decades.

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