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The LAT front reports that at a time when South Korea has been taking a softer line regarding North Korea, a midget North Korean submarine of the sort often used in spy missions has been captured off the South Korean coast.
USAT and the WP both report that the official reasons are that the team has too many Americans and that the team leader, former Marine Scott Ritter, is a spy.
But observers who aren't married to Pollard are left with a choice: Do we trust Jonathan Pollard, an admitted, unapologetic spy, who told lie after lie after lie in the course of stealing U.S. secrets, when he says he didn't take anything serious?
O'Brian's is a roman fleuve recounting the 1790-1815 continuing adventures of his ship captain hero, Jack Aubrey, Royal Navy, and of Aubrey's best friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon, a naturalist and spy for the British.
The connotation is of Cold War provenance and was given broad currency in large part through the novels of John Le Carré, whose longtime protagonist, the spy master George Smiley, has pursued moles within British intelligence.