Spies

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  • The truth about the polygraph

    It's junk science, but proponents say it can be a useful tool in interrogations, and even a deterrent.
    By Susan McCarthy March 2, 2000

  • Passing the polygraph

    Professional criminals are the ones most likely to beat the lie detector.
    By Susan McCarthy March 2, 2000

  • CIA chief testifies in Deutch probe

    By Tom Raum February 3, 2000

  • Back-stabbing, CIA-style

    The John Deutch scandal shows that the spooks spend more time trying to ruin each other than they do chasing down security breaches.
    By Jeff Stein February 3, 2000

  • Media man

    With his new Web venture, magazine veteran Kurt Andersen promises a must-go news and information site that's as witty as the Wall Street Journal.
    By Susan Lehman December 13, 1999

  • It takes one to know one

    The irony behind liberal Jacob Weisberg's smear of conservative scholars who have documented Communist spying in the U.S. is that he is using the tactics he wrongly charges them with -- "neo-McCarthyism."
    By David Horowitz December 6, 1999

  • "The World Is Not Enough"

    God save James Bond.
    By Charles Taylor November 19, 1999

  • Eye-opening punishment

    Voyeurs in Mexico, Scotland and Japan have their wide eyes shut -- one forever.
    By Hank Hyena November 15, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    The "other woman" should dump that loser! Plus: Brill's Content editor questions Salon angle; e-commerce today, gone tomorrow?
    Letters to the Editor November 11, 1999

  • The little old lady from the KGB

    Grannies will be spies and spies will be grannies. It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world except for Hola! H-0-L-A, Hola!
    By Douglas Cruickshank September 16, 1999

  • My prom date, the spy

    I thought my Russian boyfriend's parents were journalists. My bureaucrat dad was convinced they were spies. Of course, they did have that wall-size transmission device in the living room ...
    By Lisa Zeidner September 10, 1999

  • The Manchurian presidency

    The worst national security disaster in history came about because President Clinton had loyalties not to foreign communists, but to the Chinese funders who got him elected.
    By David Horowitz June 21, 1999

  • Friend or foe?

    The appropriate U.S. reaction to new allegations of Chinese espionage depends on whether China is an adversary or an ally.
    By Joshua Micah Marshall May 26, 1999

  • The Salon Interview: Ken Follett

    The thriller-master talks about Bob Dylan, working with Ross Perot and why he prefers the creature comforts of a luxury hotel to the perilous terrain of his heroes.
    By David Bowman December 2, 1998

  • A conversation with Jonathan Pollard

    A conversation with Jonathan Pollard: Betrayed by Gingrich and Netanyahu, the convicted spy for Israel blasts the politics behind his latest failed hope for clemency.
    By Walter Ruby November 30, 1998

  • The president as lab rat

    How much surveillance can one human being take? President Clinton is helping us find out.
    By Gary Wolf August 30, 1998

  • The Awful Truth: Show Us Your Ugly Pancreas

    When performers reveal just a little more of themselves than you want to see.
    By Cintra Wilson April 22, 1997
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