Biman officials in Dubai were found to have been "extending special privileges" to the main freight handler in exchange for bribes.
Ms. Leung, who is said to have extensive contacts in the Chinese government, was recruited by James J. Smith, an F.B.I. agent who was her main handler and lover for 20 years until his retirement in 2000.
In Los Angeles, for instance, Mr. Smith was allowed to remain Ms. Leung's main handler for 18 years, an unusually long partnership fraught with perils, officials said.
"You can never get a real straight answer from either of them," says Max Eisenbud, Maria's main handler at IMG, who speaks with her daily.
Prominent among them is Tennent H. Bagley, who was one of Mr. Nosenko's main handlers as chief of counterintelligence for the C.I.A.'s Soviet division.
In the main room, Ms. Handler and her beau, the hotelier Andre Balazs, also made small talk with Conan O'Brien, as a video loop of the Oscars played nearby.
The main back-end handler is running a big ZeroMQ event loop.
The main task of the handler is to register the modules that run on the back-end and ensure data and control paths are appropriately connected up and running.
The French authorities have detained the man who alerted the police on Saturday to a weapons cache in the car of an airport baggage handler at the main international airport here, officials said today.
