Rule No. 1: in the world of spying, there is no such thing as a friendly intelligence service. Last week France decided it had had enough snooping by its American friends. Normally these cases are handled with diplomatic discretion. But the French government went public with its request that five CIA operatives allegedly caught gathering French economic and political secrets in Paris leave the country, after the French newspaper Le Monde published a detailed account of dirty tricks by the CIA's station chief in Paris, three of his case officers posing as American diplomats and a fourth officer operating under a...
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