SPY TALK
BY JEFF STEIN
YEARS BACK, when I was researching a story about how the CIA had overlooked Russian moles in its ranks, I applied for my own security ile. I wanted to know what investigators had dug up when they delayed granting me a top-secret clearance for a slot in Army Intelligence during the Vietnam War. As it turned out, they had discovered an alarming piece of information: I had been fired from a summer job years earlier at Sugarman’s shoe store in Hyannis, Massachusetts.