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Article: Spy time. (new awareness of seriousness of espionage)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 10, 1987
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Spy Time
THE CONVICTION of Jonathan Pollard for massivespying for a foreign nation returns us, finally, to the possibility of seriousness as regards espionage.
That seriousness has been lacking for a very longtime--since World War II at least. Prior to that, the world situation was very different--an era when it may have been naive but was not anachronistic for a statesman to decline to read "other people's mail.'
We still hear that "during the McCarthy period'zealots were looking for "Communists under the bed.' In the present academy, there has arisen a whole new generation of scholars, come of age in the 1960s, that regards the Popular Front ...