| Summary/Abstract |
Double agents are a special breed of people. They pretend to spy for one foreign intelligence service while actually spying for another. All intelligence services fall victim to such deception from time to time. It's all part of the “wilderness of mirrors” in spy wars where illusion and reality coexist and confound. Former Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms once told Congress that detecting a double-agent operation is “one of the most difficult and tricky aspects of intelligence work, and there isn't anybody who's been in it very long who hasn't been tricked once, twice, maybe many times.”
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