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This article presents news briefs related to various socio-political events of various countries. Democrat Senator John Kerry is the latest liberal Democrat from Massachusetts to contest elections for president. On December 1, Kerry has considered to form a committee to raise funds for his party's nomination. The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is Germany's secret service and the custodian of the nation's secrets. The BND is going to open a retail center. A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control has found that there has been an increase in the number of high-schoolers who never had sex between 1991 and 2001.

Presents a fictitious exchange of correspondence between two KGB agents on political developments in the U.S. and in the world. Reelection of U.S. president Ronald Reagan by landslide; Solidarity protests led by Lech Walesa in Poland; March for nuclear freeze in New York City; Failure to persuade the West to abandon missile deployment.

The article examines whether Alger Hiss is guilty or innocent of the espionage charges he faced, based on the decision of General Dmitri Volkogonov, the designated teller of Soviet secrets, to exonerate him in the 1990s. According to Volkogonov, his accuser, Whitaker Chambers, was not a spy either. In other words, Chambers lied in massive detail about Hiss and himself. Only, if Hiss is innocent and if what Chambers had confessed was a lie, there will be great consequences.

Focuses on the criticisms made against the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after the Watergate scandal. Reason for the existence of nicknames in the agency; Charges made against the CIA; Justification of the CIA regarding its chameleon policy.

The article focuses on the testimony of Betty Currie, secretary of U.S. President Bill Clinton, with regard to the scandal involving Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky in 1999. Currie, during her first interview, said that she could only recall two specific visits by Lewinsky to Clinton and could not remember incidents when Currie allegedly cleared Lewinsky into the White House 26 times. At Currie's second interview, she was asked about an incident where Lewinsky started a fight when she learned that Clinton was with politician Eleanor Mondale. Such interview led to an angry confusion between Currie and U.S. Secret Service agents. Lies were obvious during Currie's final court appearance in July, wherein she said that she could no longer recall that she used to come into the White House on weekends for the primary purpose of admitting Lewinsky to the Oval Office.

Discusses the seriousness of espionage exemplified by the conviction of Jonathan Pollard for massive spying for a foreign nation. Emerging literature that reveals an important subculture of Soviet agents who have not made it into the general political consciousness; Call for the government to get serious about counter-espionage.

The article reports on the controversy generated over a story published in the magazine "Guardian" related to novelist George Orwell's patriotism. The story disclosed that Orwell had provided a secret British Foreign Service Unit the details of some writers and journalists who were Soviet Union spies. Many readers are fully aware of Orwell's patriotism. Orwell himself had shown his love for country in his youthful socialist enthusiasms. Orwell also announced the importance of the basic human right to defend and fight for one's own self.

This article highlights the conference entitled, The Proper Role of an Intelligence Agency in a Democracy, held in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1992. The event was co-hosted by Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev and the Washington-based Center for Democracy. The opening session revealed powerful figures, including General Vadim A. Kirpichenko, head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service. The U.S. was represented by William Colby, former director of Central Intelligence Agency and Allen Weinstein of the Center for Democracy. Throughout the conference both Anatoly A. Oleinikov, Russia's first deputy minister of internal security, and Kirpichenko had maintained a safe distance from the issue of reform versus maintenance of effective security.

Focuses on the activities of an agent of State Security Committee (KGB) of the Soviet Union, Bogdan Stashynsky. Information on the murder of two Ukrainian nationalist leaders by KGB agent Stashynsky; Description of the state honor which Stashynsky got; Information that Comrade Alexander N. Shelepin personally read the document, signed by Klementi Voroshilov, Chairman of the Presidium and therefore President of the Soviet Union, and pinned the order on the guest of honor; Comment on the treatment given by the Soviet Union to Stashynsky; Reference to facts documented in a trial in the Supreme Court of West Germany; Information about the background of Stashynsky; Description of his activities in Munich which involved the murder of a Ukrainian nationalist leader, Stefan Bandera.

The article discusses the report of the bipartisan Cox committee on Chinese espionage in the U.S. The report is grim in what it says about the national security of the U.S. and in what it says about the administration of President Bill Clinton. Chinese spies have succeeded in stealing U.S. nuclear weapons technology and research. Chinese espionage in the U.S. continues to this day. The efforts of the Clinton administration against Chinese espionage are reprehensible. U.S. Department of Justice Secretary Janet Reno refused a Federal Bureau of Investigation request to wiretap Wen Ho Lee, one of the suspects in Chinese espionage activities, even though there enough reason to justifying wiretapping him. The Clinton administration keep on insisting that Chinese espionage happened in three successive administrations.

Focuses on the separate cases of two U.S. spies who sold their country's military secrets for money. Potential effects of the efforts on U.S. soldiers and national security.

Discusses the capability of the U.S. Congress to practice responsible oversight of intelligence activities, once those activities are viewed as an integral part of a foreign policy that has become the subject of partisan political debate. Intelligence blunders during the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal; Establishment of select Congressional committees on intelligence; Investigations on the calculated, politically motivated leaking of highly sensitive information in the nation's capital.

The article criticizes the government of U.S. President Jimmy Carter for its failure to investigate and prosecute Soviet espionage. This negligence is made amid its prosecution, instead, of former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation officials Mark Felt and Edward Miller for an operation to capture members of the Weather Underground. Both Felt and Miller asserts that members of the Weather Underground are in contacts with a foreign power.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Private Schools and the First Amendment" in the August 3, 1979 issue, "The Week," by David Binder in the July 6, 1979 issue, "Libertarians and Conservatives," by Ernest van den Haag in the June 8, 1979 issue.

The article focuses on the investigation by the House Select Committee on the effectiveness of intelligence agencies in the U.S. The contents of an intelligence report released by the committee included certain words the U.S. administration emphatically believed should be kept secret. The U.S. administration refused to provide data containing classified material unless the Committee seeks Executive consultation for its declassification. The Committee's report is due on January 31, 1976 and it is suggested that the administration and the Committee must work out a compromise.

The article presents the "Headlines of 1995," by Christopher Buckley which appeared in the "Wall Street Journal." These include "Amtrak Engineer Drives Train Into Front of White House: President Unhurt, but "Annoyed"," "Gore Calls for Reduction in Bovine Flatulence," "Secret Service Arrests Jesse Helms," and "Italy Upset by U.S. Stamp Depicting Mussolini Hanging Upside Down."

The article explores issues concerning the arrest of Aldrich Ames, veteran officer of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in March 1994 on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. As a member of the Directorate for Operations of the CIA, Ames was part of the elite element of U.S. intelligence which conducts classical espionage. He served as chief of the CIA for three years charged with protecting U.S. intelligence operations from the KGB. For the KGB, Ames could supply the details on every agent, operation, technique and technical gadget. He could also provide feedback about intelligence activities, military technologies, war plans, communication codes and diplomatic moves.

This article focuses on the disclosure of covert operations by the German security agency Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (KGB) in Greece during the 1980s. According to Viktor P. Gundarev, a former deputy director of the KGB mission, the aim of the KGB program was to spoil U.S.-Greek military relations. One of those individuals who were discredited by the Soviets for inconveniencing them was anti-socialist Constantine Mitsotakis. The KGB proliferated disinformation about him, presenting him as an incapable politician. Companies which conducted commercial activity with Soviet support included Vek, EnerVek and TechnoVek.

The article presents the author's experience in attending conference sponsored by the Washington-based International Freedom Foundation held in 1992 at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany. In the conference, it was revealed that the Soviet intelligence apparatus of the KGB had been resurrected with President Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to replace it the Inter-Republican Security Service and the Central intelligence Service. The same event triggered the creation of post-KGB republican agencies. But, beyond the re-orientation of the Soviet intelligence service, investigation into its past involvement in drug trafficking and terrorism must be instituted.

The article focuses on the decision of the Soviet Union authorities to reduce the number of foreign diplomats, journalists and other trade officials in their country. The reasons Soviets have objected to fixed quotas of accredited staff is that foreign embassies in Moscow are much smaller than their embassies in other countries. When Great Britain expelled eight Soviet diplomats and three journalists for spying, the Soviet authorities in a counteraction expelled the same number of British diplomats and journalists.

Presents information on Soviet Lunik satellites. Concern of the journal with the recurrent problems associated with the satellites; Claim of the author that the American intelligence posses detailed information on these satellites.

Reports that Russian leaders had been advocating a military occupation in Czechoslovakia. Preparation of a report by West German army intelligence about the exact information of preparations for a takeover during the Warsaw Pact maneuvers; Dismissal of a number of secret service agents of Czechoslovakia; Challenges faced by Russians in attacking Czechoslovakia.

Examines the future of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency under the directorship of Allen Dulles and in the aftermath of the Iran-Contra hearings in the 1980s. Emergence of a stronger agency after the Iran-Contra hearings; Ability of the agency to keep covert operations secret; Chances of improved U.S. Congress approval of intelligence proposals.

This article supports the bills introduced by Senator Lloyd Bentsen, House Representatives Robert Michel and Robert McClory that aims to reform the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies. The debacle in U.S. foreign relations in Iran has damaged the prestige of the U.S. intelligence services. Sustained criticism by the liberal media has severely affected the morale and ability of intelligence services. It is timely to reform the intelligence services so they can serve the country better.

The article offers news briefs related to world politics as of September 1976. Michigan Republican Chairman William McLaughlin suggested to provide a secret service protection for the person who wrote the acceptance speech of U.S. President Gerald Ford. The list of priority legislation from U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was expected to be passed in October. There was an increase in the unemployment rate in the U.S. Taiwan provided assistance to earthquake victims in China.

Discusses issues concerning a white paper issued by the U.S. Foreign Office endorsing an international order of nuclear disarmament as of May 1965. System required for an agreed reduction of armaments; Speculations concerning the order, including the inducement of espionage; Potential effect of nuclear disarmament on taxation.

Deals with the difficulty facing Ismael Ege, a former Soviet major who testified that the Soviet News Agency Tass is an espionage outfit, in getting a life insurance policy. Trouble for Ege to convince insurance companies that he is assassination-prone; Outlook of U.S. insurance companies on the life expectancy of Ege.

Comments on the issue that the atrocity stories from Mozambique originated in the Czech secret service. Explanation for the peculiarities in the stories; Comments on the decision of the KGB to modify the story; Controversies involving South Africa.

Presents information on a letter published in the Times which criticized the Foreign Office's abdication of the real political responsibilities. View that the Soviet Union is responsible for the skillful exploitation of highly placed traitors from within the British Foreign Office and Secret Service; Notion that the Soviet Union is responsible for the operation of widespread espionage networks from within the Soviet Embassy and Trade Delegation; Note on the establishment of a fifth column of five hundred Soviet nationals possessing varying degrees of diplomatic immunity.

Focuses on political issues pertaining to Great Britain with emphasis on the jail-break by George Blake, the Soviet spy. Refusal by home secretary Roy Jenkins to carry out the court order to flog a life prisoner who had assailed and killed his warder; Insistence by politician Edward Heath that the Labor government should take full responsibility for the escape of the traitor Blake; Fact that the maneuver of the Labor government was to appoint a commission to look into the matter of prison security.

Presents information on the activities of U.S. spies. Claim that they do not place themselves above the law, they are not contemptuous of the U.S. Congress or of the courts; View that they are not principled traitors but businessmen dealing in treason, faceless predators whose purposes are both encouraged and concealed by the laboring of innocent hordes who, thinking to liberate the mind of man, connive day in and day out in the equalization of all his values; Claim that to the unmoored, neither Communism's potency nor the West's viability seems real.