This is the Summer of Spies

The summer of 2010 will be remembered as the hottest on record. It might also surpass previous records as a silly season for federal government spending.

But there is another accolade in the offing -- the summer of spies. At home, our spy chief, Richard Fadden, popped up on TV to warn about agents of influence at their insidious work in provincial cabinets and B.C. municipal politics. The United States and Russia swapped a bag of spies, with the U.S. ridding itself of 10 not-very-successful Russian agents and springing some valuable pros from Russian jails in return. more

By Wesley Wark, Special to the Sun
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PJL July 2010