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"I think that they will still have a lot of discomfort," said Aleksandr Kolpakidi, an intelligence historian in Moscow.

Matthew M. Aid, an intelligence historian, asked for that opinion two years ago under the Freedom of Information Act.

Its author David Burke, an intelligence historian, reveals that the spies liked the building's shape: it made surveillance difficult.

"That was a very scary thing for the administration to be saying," said David Wise, an intelligence historian.

Matthew M. Aid, an intelligence historian in Washington, said the reports have "confirmed longstanding suspicions that N.S.A's surveillance in this country is far more intrusive than we knew".

"It's a fine line he was treading," said Matthew M. Aid, an intelligence historian and author of "The Secret Sentry," a 2009 book on the N.S.A. "But trying to talk around these secret programs just makes matters worse".

Military and intelligence historians say the practice dates to the Spanish Inquisition.

"Bobby Ray is probably one of the brightest people I've ever talked to on the subject of intelligence," said historian Matthew Aid.

Working with Hugh Trevor-Roper, the British intelligence officer and historian who wrote "The Last Days of Hitler," and another American agent named Rosener, Mr. Weiss pressured Mr. Zander's family members, whom he found in the telephone book, and a girlfriend to gain the information that led to a Bavarian farmhouse where Mr. Zander was posing as a gardener.

In addition, some intelligence experts and historians expressed great disappointment that the documents were so heavily censored and provided relatively little information that was not already in the public realm.

The outrage of European leaders notwithstanding, intelligence experts and historians say the most recent disclosures reflect the complicated nature of the relationship between the intelligence services of the United States and its allies, which have long quietly swapped information on each others' citizens.