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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300090041-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 41
• Content Type: NSPR

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foite-tbe' Sphlnx was Cary% - pc
pie have 'bar'n&` inaiit ed, with i
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ed ify, Obaut whatever, they
.WW not )coow. Spies, wet' at-
tempt to Satisfy just such curi-
osity, regularly fact da et4 VDn-.
eict, and auspent -the stuff of
,.drama. Hence, the attractiveness
(Of their calling to journalistic job.
~ totters intent on lassoing the skit-,
titish buck. That is it legttimatO
ANATOMY ',OF STING; .841
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sphere of social activity
.at thisowe hicldt?n,' ,subi become suule(ti
t .' : basic. gor4 tucut tr book example of this sort of thing.
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i,xi viduai s "s txk moir_er 'at44- in style it is adequate. to are ','useful. Elsewhere are Interesting,
?iography.. contains nevert-helm ,rangement, which is topical rather ~ ft often trite, passages on the
;a huiltdn booby-trap. Houl.c,lz 1'pt,I than chronological, there is ample. qualities mandatory in a spy
for these and a
lire in some far-off reglop, YOU Seth does FO,
dozen other topics. The trouble is,
i'lais reviewer has-ecb hsswed they have all been done before.
k y a retired American dipidfiat; ;often as well, usually more fully.
_ s, well-publicized reminiscene Yet mere are no uw)wgrs .
b British agent in World War references in this book, with twt-
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Ii. is 9o per Cent prevarication ?aexce$ipns. lt; would'then SO"'
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memoirs, but in no case can these flour (two uum ul a?...t Y
I records of the actual parts played -e--
by their writcrrs:= .. ?ft is alwayiR The narrative itself. after a n
3 pendent ihroniclers-are uniquely 1 epi eR~n Is "anatomyof In
1 hard to came by, for the, reason ,f,ternatlonal espionage across two'
analysis of . the' psyehology ands `
regimen controlling the course of
,terent . governments' in'teften" t:
Spy buffs mayy take to thfa:boah. `
around.
ridden by their governments to ' ime Mr. Seth perpetrates the
trionuge is. at the outset, breed 01;4F le, that ,the Japanese in !heir
ih rustration amid what shook( war with cRussia `.`were the, A
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t;t:th. But since this vast area
griiitary history, and several other ?
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