title: Mole-Hunt: How the Search for a Phantom Traitor Shattered the CIA
author: David Wise
description: The author traces the CIA's Cold War efforts to uproot Soviet spies within its ranks. <BR>Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Sybil Stone scanned the group of twenty already boarded on the
  �ight. “No press or nonessential sta� on this �ight. Skeleton crew
  only. Get them o� fast and get the press and sta� separated, Agent
  Westford.” Worry clouded her eyes, turning her irises midnight blue.
  “Delay their return to the States until Monday”
  Monday? But it was only Wednesday. “Sta� and press, Vice
  President Stone?”
  She nodded. “Yes, Agent Westford. Let’s get going. We have
  seventy-two hours, and we’re going to need every minute, ‘ Hail
  Mary’and scrap of luck we can scrounge up.”
  “I’ll have to bring in the CIA,” he reminded her, an
  accompanyimg chill crawling up his backbone. Liberty wasn’t prone
  to exaggeration, and only once, during a crisis in the Middle East
  that had threatened to rip open barely healed wounds, had he heard
  her resort to a verbal “Hail Mary” pass. “The press will scream
  bloody murder.”
  “I look forward to hearing it.”
  That ba�
  ed him. “Ma’am?”
  “They’ll be alive to scream.”
  
  To Helen Breitwieser
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