Fears of such moles in prominent positions in American life led to overreactions such as McCarthyism. For example, James Angleton, director of conterintelligence for the CIA between 19, was reportedly obsessed with suspicions that the top levels of Western governments were riddled with long-term communist agents, and accused numerous politicians such as Henry Kissinger, Lester Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, and many members of Congress before he was removed in 1975. The possibility that a top politician, corporate executive, government minister, or officer in an intelligence service could be a mole working for a foreign government is the worst nightmare of counterintelligence services. By contrast, most espionage agents, such as CIA Director of Counterintelligence Aldritch Ames and FBI agent Robert Hanssen who spied on the US government for the KGB, are recruited as spies after they are in place as members of the target organization.īecause their recruitment occurred in the remote past, moles are difficult for a nation's security services to detect. Perhaps the most famous examples of moles are the Cambridge Five, five upper-class British men recruited by the KGB as left-wing students at Cambridge University in the 1930s who later rose to high levels in various parts of the British government. While the term mole was applied to spies in the book Historie of the Reign of King Henry VII written in 1626 by Sir Francis Bacon Le Carré has said he did not get the term from that source.Ī mole may be recruited early in life, and may take decades to get a job in government service and reach a position of access to secret information before he becomes active as a spy. Le Carré has said that the term mole was actually used by the Soviet intelligence agency KGB, and that a corresponding term used by Western intelligence services was sleeper agent. The term was introduced to the public by British spy novelist John Le Carré in his 1974 novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and has since entered general usage, but its origin is unclear, as well as to what extent it was used by intelligence services before it became popularized. However it is popularly used to mean any long-term clandestine spy or informer within an organization, whether government or private. SPYDER was considered by Ben Ripley to be his main enemy because they had planned many schemes that Ben thwarted.In espionage jargon, a mole (also called a penetration agent, deep cover agent, or sleeper agent) is a long-term spy (espionage agent) who is recruited before he has access to secret intelligence, and subsequently works his way into the target organization. However, since SPYDER has been supposedly defeated in Spy School British Invasion, it is unlikely for them to rise up in the future and play the major villainous faction again. This seven book arc is dubbed The SPYDER Collection. They appear in every book starting from Spy School to Spy School British Invasion, with the exception of Spy Ski School. SPYDER is first introduced in Spy School, where it is revealed that they planted Murray Hill as a mole in the CIA Academy of Espionage. SPYDER makes contracts with dozens of arms dealers, and stockpile several weapons like M16s and unorthodox ones like flamethrowers.įormer CIA Academy of Espionage professorįormer Wiseman Preparatory Academy professor They also own the Lew Brothers Construction company. According to Murray Hill, SPYDER insources their evil schemes to make more money. They launched operations for the sole purpose of causing chaos and making incredible amounts of money, on the scale of millions upon billions of dollars. It is comprised of freelance evil agents, moles, thugs, and agents from various intelligence organizations who were bought off by SPYDER. SPYDER is an elusive criminal organization dedicated to causing chaos. And frankly, calling ourselves 'an international consortium of independent agents who cause chaos and mayhem for a price' is a mouthful." - Murray Hill " SPYDER is unlike any organization the CIA has ever faced." - Cyrus Hale " Cause it sounds cool.
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