The news of the defection arrives in the midst of an increasingly visible espionage battle between Washington and Moscow, after the arrest last month of Robert Philip Hanssen, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who has been charged with spying for Russia.
He agreed to see me as a writer of history books rather than as a news journalist, since I was researching one on the post-Cold War espionage battle between Russia and the West.
In West Germany, slowly emerging from Nazism's shadow, the superpowers fought the shadowy espionage battles of the cold war.
Richer's descriptive talents are on display as he tells of synods and coronations, deception and espionage, battles and sieges, disease and death, and even the difficulties of travel.
These include more boy-friendly reading assignments (science fiction, fantasy, sports, espionage, battles); more recess (where boys can engage in rough-and-tumble as a respite from classroom routine); campaigns to encourage male literacy; more single-sex classes; and more male teachers (and female teachers interested in the pedagogical challenges boys pose).
The winners: a formidable Danish investigation of espionage, a battling Greek columnist, a Ukrainian daily making repeated waves – and Paul Lewis of the Guardian for his massively orchestrated analysis of the British riots.
Chung was now an espionage suspect.
That encounter had a whiff of an espionage film script.
"You're trying to establish an espionage thriller," he said.
First there's The Debt, an espionage drama starring Helen Mirren.
Is it now becoming an espionage tool?
