What you see above is just a miniature, but Spymaster is taking orders for the real, full-size McCoy.

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When Dunn read the press reports, she saw herself portrayed as a spymaster, a process freak, obsessed with leaks.

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Think of this: a secret-service boss in Berlin spends years trying to frustrate the activities of spooks run by another spymaster.

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Britain's chief spymaster, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, John Scarlett, made a rare public appearance to back up Mr Campbell's assertion.

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That campaign is led by two television channels whose owners are either in jail or on the run for taking bribes from Vladimiro Montesinos, Mr Fujimori's imprisoned spymaster.

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So, if you have a spymaster who unwittingly relies on double agents feeding the CIA enemy disinformation rather than accurate intelligence, conclusions drawn from such data will be erroneous, possibly dangerously so.

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Mr Tschopp and his committee are already looking into a quite separate allegation that the Swiss spymaster had links with a biological and chemical weapons programme built up by South Africa's apartheid regime.

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First, as the chief spymaster of China, Gen.

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The Pentagon has tried to nominate James Woolsey, a former head of the CIA, as a key player in the interim government, but some at the State Department are said to be appalled at the notion of putting a former spymaster in a foreign government.

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