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TABLE OF CONTENTS
108 THE CIA: 50 YEARS OF SUCCESS, SCANDALS, AND SABOTAGE
Kim Philby…Microdot cameras…Stinger missiles…A half century of espionage has produced unforgettable moments of treachery, triumph. Here’s an eye-popping salute to skulduggery.
112 THE LADY IS A SPY
With Elizabeth Hurley
So much for fedoras and trench coats. Sometimes the most remarkable spies look like the girl next door or the chanteuse in the spotlight. A pictorial parade of history’s most alluring female secret agents.
118 OUR MAN IN MOSCOW
By David Wise
For years, a man called Tophat supplied the U.S. with confidential Soviet documents. He betrayed his Kremlin colleagues not for personal gain but for political reasons. In the end, the greed of a CIA desk jockey undid one of America’s most crucial illicit contacts.
122 TRADING FACES
By Lisa DePaulo
To Philadelphia’s Latino community, plastic surgeon José Castillo is a hero. But now he stands convicted of helping a notorious drug dealer go undercover. A look at what happens when evil pays a visit.
126 RAGING WATERS
By Bruce Schoenfeld
Did the CIA flood South-Central Los Angeles with crack cocaine? Fiery California congresswoman Maxine Waters thinks so. Despite murky evidence, Waters won’t rest until she unmasks the agency.
130 THE DALAI LAMA’S GREAT ESCAPE
By John B. Roberts II
In 1959, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave the slip to a posse of Chinese soldiers amassed outside his Tibetan palace. How did he sneak to safety? With the secret help of U.S. spies.
COVER
Elizabeth Hurley, photographed by Michael Thompson. Hair by Serge Normant. Estée Lauder makeup by Laura Mercier for Laura Mercier Classique. Styled by Claire Todd. Prop styling by Margaret Russell. Leather dress and stiletto boots by Gianni Versace Couture. Handgun from the Beretta Gallery in New York.
38 PRIMARIES
Marianne Williamson’s new world order…The CIA’s acid flashback…John Huang scans classified documents…Glasnost on the Potomac?
56 HISTORY
TOP 10 SPY OPERATIONS
These clandestine missions allowed more than just a peek at the enemy. They changed the world.
BY ERNEST VOLKMAN
63 RANT
BIG BROTHER’S LITTLE HELPER
The CIA has ways of getting the president not to talk. An insider reveals the hush-hush hardball that keeps citizens in the dark.
BY RICHARD NUCCIO
64 WHITE HOUSE
THE GORE DILEMMA
As Clinton crafts a foreign policy legacy, his heir apparent, Al Gore, may have a few international booby traps awaiting him.
BY CLAIRE SHIPMAN
66 BETWEEN THE LINES
THE GANG OF FOUR
An under-the-dome look at the failed coup by the once-loyal lieutenants of House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
BY TONY BLANKLEY
70 EYEWITNESS
1967: MY EUREKA MOMENT
A renowned physicist recalls his Nobel Prize-winning glimpse into the meaning of matter 30 years ago.
BY STEVEN WEINBERG
74 MEMOIR
A SPY IN THE FAMILY
Not many family secrets involve murder, the Gestapo, or toppling the Italian government. A writer grapples with his grandfather’s deadly career in the CIA.
BY COLIN BEAVAN
82 HOW IT WORKS
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Winning the Nobel Peace Prize can be anything but peaceful. Herewith, a guide to the road to Oslo.
BY WILBUR S. LAW
86 NATIONAL
AGENT PROVOCATEUR
As a wronged employee of the CIA, Janine Brookner collected $400,000. Her next battle? A one-woman crusade to expose the agency’s sexism.
BY PAUL STAROBIN
94 GLOBAL
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SIR JAMES
All the lucre in the world couldn’t give one British billionaire what he sorely wanted: the end of the European Union.
BY NICHOLAS FRASER
102 PLAYERS
ESPIONAGE INC.
Kroll Associates, the world’s most powerful corporate gumshoe agency, is a very private enterprise.
BY JIM LEWIS
148 QUIPS
ROCK IT TO ’EM!
The raspy talk show host speaks out on pampered prisoners—and Pat Riley as political messiah.
BY CHRIS ROCK
DEPARTMENTS
16 Contributors
22 Editor’s Letter
30 Letters
34 We the People
52 Scoop
145 Puzzle
150 If I Were President