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this week’s contest
crossword isa
ten-letter word.
Across
1 Cuckoo’s
announcement
5 Bittern’s cousin
10 Well-connected
device
14 Property
measure
15 Store of
valuable things
16 Fit for military
service
17 Word of
urgency in the
infirmaryPrevious Puzzle’s Solution18 Collateral for a
loan, at times
20 Vampire
repellent
22 They end at
elbows
23 Blood bank unit
24 Grievance
25 Take
responsibility
for a bad
situation
28 Investigations
into rival pols
31 Measure of
skill
34 Future husband
36 Pauper apparel
38 Naval NCO39 Pilot program,
of a sort
42 Wing
43 Doesn’t shut up
44 Thrifty folks
45 Ointment
amounts
47 Push down
49 Precipitated
50 Hoppy brews,
for short
52 Frankenstein’s
factotum
54 Heed, as advice
56 Vanilla quaff
61 Show
63 Measure of
skill64 Ferret’s cousin
65 Squalid digs
66 Service period
67 Declines
68 Paper columns
69 Not bamboozled
by
Down
1 Messy mix
2 Number
between septem
and novem
3 River of Russia
and Kazakhstan
4 Fixing an
incorrect
password, say
5 Tom’s “Mission:
Impossible” role
6 Picturesque
cave
7 Cinecittà Studios
site
8 At any time
9 Driving aid
10 Chicken, on
French menus
11 Free of bugs
12 Puzzle with an
extra level
13 Suffers
consequences
19 “What?” in
Juárez
21 Given to
cackling, say24 Fraudulent
25 Iced
26 Author Cather
27 Tense
29 Spectrum
producer
30 Country singer
Tillis
32 Cricket, e.g.
33 Trunk
35 Divisions d’une
nation
37 Winding race
40 Reggae kin
41 Resisting
46 Hybrid utensils
48 Like a quilt
51 “The point
being?”
53 Highland people
54 Bill issuers
55 Mint family
plant
56 Hoof sound
57 Effusive review
58 Plow pullers
59 Move quickly
60 Rounds at a
range
62 Soup of
Vietnams
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is so shaken by the Soviet invasion
of Czechoslovakia that he becomes
an operative for British and Amer-
ican intelligence—one, “Spy Wars”
reveals (begins Sunday, 8 p.m.,
Smithsonian Channel), destined to
be of historic importance. This is
the saga of Oleg Gordievsky—sub-
ject of the first episode of this
eight-part weekly series, and a
rich portrait it is. When his role of
many years as a spy for the British
and Americans finally becomes
known to the Kremlin, quick exfil-
tration becomes an urgent neces-
sity. His 1985 getaway in the trunk
of a car driven by unflappable MI
agents, who get him safely to Fin-
land despite suspicious Russian
border guards—and the howls of
their alert dogs, who quiet down
when the car’s driver throws them
a treat—is an escape sequence to
cherish.
In 2001, Robert Hanssen—one
of the FBI’s most trusted agents—
is unmasked as the mole who had,
for 20 years, betrayed the identi-
ties of American assets in the So-
viet Union and then Russia, thus
ensuring their deaths at the hands
of execution squads.
In 2010, agents of the Kremlin
who had successfully passed them-
selves off as upstanding American
citizens for 10 years are rounded
up by the FBI in neighborhoods
across the country.
The aforementioned are just
three of the exceptionally nuanced
case histories presented in “Spy
Wars With Damian Lewis,” a series
distinguished by the eloquence
with which it evokes the times in
which these events took place.
Watching any of the episodes in
this series is like being immersed
in a hefty work of fiction propelled
by complex depths and sharp plot
twists, not to mention suspense.
Among them is a chapter de-
voted to the terrorist plot, con-
ceived in 2006, that was intended
to culminate in a loss of American
lives equal to that of the 9/11 at-
tacks. The ring leader was Abdullah
Ahmed Ali, resident of East London
and chief strategist of the group of
conspirators planning the destruc-
tion of American passenger planes
flying from Heathrow to the U.S.
Ali had been given extensive
training in counter-intelligence, been
taught to avoid being followed and
the like—not that this was of any
help to him on this mission. In Lon-
don, he was successfully followed
everywhere he went. For sheer
drama, nothing in this history is
equal to the surveillance procedure
through which MI5 tracked every
move made by Ali and others sus-
pected of being his co-conspirators
in a planned terror strike of some
kind. Thirty agents a day were em-
ployed in tracking Ali alone.
A quick secret search of his
suitcase at Heathrow had pro-
duced an early cause for suspi-
cion—why was his suitcase
stocked with packages for the
making of a sugar-based drink and
a supply of AA batteries? The an-swer would be clear, in time. Once
the British surveillance team had
finished installing hidden cameras
and bugs in Ali’s East London flat,
they had full access to every con-
versation held there, which is to
say they learned most of what
they needed to know. Among the
things they discovered was that 19
plotters were to take part in the
mission—the same number that
were involved in the attacks of
9/11. A fact, one commentator
notes, that suggests how much the
planners of this terrorist mission
wanted to emulate that assault in
every way possible, including,
above all, its magnitude.
As British intelligence learned,
the destruction was intended to beling as the one titled “The Spies
Next Door.” Here’s the origin story
of “The Americans”—the real-life
Russian spies who settled in afflu-
ent American communities, pre-
tending to be born and bred U.S.
citizens. The successful disguise of
their identities owed much to their
long years of training in a special
school where they were drilled in
thinking and speaking like Ameri-
cans—a place, the film informs us,
where even muttering a Russian
word in their sleep was cause to
be dropped from training.
Here are the Murphys—Cynthia
and Richard of Montclair, N.J.—
who spent 10 years serving the
Kremlin while comfortably embed-
ded in a community that thought
highly of them. Cynthia especially,
who had some big job in finance, it
was understood. But she was a fun
person, always busy in the garden
on weekends. Her husband, Rich-
ard, a stay-at-home father, was
much more reclusive, a neighbor
testifies. Perhaps not surprising—
Richard, it turned out, was in
charge of the real family business,
which was spying.
Eight chapters, in short, of en-
thralling power—a tonic for dark
times and every other kind.Spy Wars With Damian Lewis
Begins Sunday, 8 p.m., Smithsonian
Channelmassive and terrifying, the explo-
sives set to go off far enough away
from London as to make it impos-
sible for any of the American pas-
senger planes not destroyed to try
to make it back to Heathrow. What
MI5 didn’t know was the day the
plot was to be enacted.
There were some complications—
the Americans, the targets of the at-
tack, and the British had differing
views as to when the plot should be
foiled, the plotters arrested.
None of this mattered in the
end, which saw Ali and his chief
collaborator arrested and in pos-
session of suicide videos among
other pieces of incriminating evi-
dence. A massive arrest action by
quickly assembled British police
teams swept up all of the other
suspected terrorists.
Amid the variety of these case
histories, there is the unexpected
treasure. That’s the story, little
known, of the young Mossad agent
who leads a mission into enemy ter-
ritory, starting in 1981, to rescue
the Jews of Ethiopia and transport
them to Israel, a vividly detailed,
emotion-laden account of a perilous
flight to the place those rescued
considered their homeland.
To the devotees of “The Ameri-
cans,” of course—some of whom
are still waiting to learn whether
Martha ever got back from Rus-
sia—no chapter will be as compel-Clockwise from above: FBI agents in
front of Robert Hanssen’s home;
Moscow as seen in ‘Spy Wars’; a
courtroom sketch depicting Abdullah
Ahmed Ali and others; Oleg
Gordievsky in 1990CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: ALASKA TV; ASSOCIATED PRESS (2); GETTY IMAGESTELEVISION REVIEW| DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
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