CAMBRIDGE Until recently, cyber security has primarily interested computer geeks and cloak and dagger types.

Spies make it their business to know things that you don't want them to know.

Indeed, in Soviet films, Baltic actors were usually cast in the roles of Nazi generals and American spies.

On the other hand, during the Culture Revolution, such traits were used to take down spies.

After being victimized by Chiang Kai shek's spies, China's Communist rulers created a vast spying apparatus of their own.

But there are other trends indicated by pornographic content that are useful to spies. Movies produced for the sexual gratification of consumers reveal cultural norms of restriction, transgression, and otherness.

But there are other trends indicated by pornographic content that are useful to spies.

But fighting terrorists requires an entirely different kind of spying from uncovering traditional spies, or neutralizing unpopular oligarchs such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Hence the televised confessions that hearkened back to the taking of hostages in the American Embassy (the nest of spies ), and the rallies against foreign embassies.

By this latest case, the Mukhabarrat is trying to pull together a cheap move, so that any public criticism against the military would be depicted immediately as the work of Israeli spies.

When I first saw South Korean cartoons, I just didn t get them, he says. There were no stories about patriotism or catching spies or war.

Then the Federal Service Bureau, formerly the KGB, celebrated the anniversary of the founding of its foreign service branch ie, the spies a reverie attended by a certain former employee named Putin.

A cyber hacker has infiltrated Britain's super secret web network of spies, revealing the identities of all Britain's agents in the field, to the dismay of the agent on duty a regrettably small role for Kevin Eldon.

Pass by the Mauermuseum at Checkpoint Charlie, the infamous meeting point for spies and would be traitors, and where one can still see a sign stating You are leaving the American sector .

After all, the American demagogue Joe McCarthy imploded when he failed to prove his charge that there were hundreds of Soviet spies infesting the US State Department.

It has interior ministry troops, federal security agency (FSB) special forces, OMON (mobile special service) troops, military intelligence troops, and a vast network of internal spies and informants.

Or maybe spies really do play stupid pranks like that, and always have, and the whole Cold War was just Our Man in Havana mixed with Dr. Strangelove, and not at all James Bond.

Campaigns routinely planted spies interns, household staff, or even lovers in the opposing camp, and devoted vast numbers of man hours to combing through private records in opposition research.

Ever since this saga began, I have been asking myself questions to which I do not have answers if I had gone to dinner at the ambassador's residence on that day, would I too have been considered a spy or a spy's accomplice?

When students and workers took to the streets in Alexandria, November 1968, denouncing the Nasserist regime, the state run media announced the arrest of Israeli spies who were involved in the agitation for the protests (Arab Report and Record, 1 15 December 1968 399).