Armin Cruz is the first military intelligence operative charged in connection with the abuse scandal.

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It's a trait of a professional intelligence operative to talk to everyone.

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Morphing from actor to patient to soldier to spy, Lysander is plunged into the dangerous world of wartime intelligence as a covert operative.

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As Afghanistan has shown, it can (and often should) be unilateralist in military matters, but it needs a more co-operative, even consensual approach for other purposes, including diplomacy, intelligence-gathering, financial tracking and above all in the battle for hearts, minds and ideas.

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"If she were only an analyst, not an operative, we would not have filed a crimes report" with the Justice Department, a senior intelligence official said.

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