The guests are the co-authors of The Spike, an acclaimed novel about Soviet

manipulation of Western public opinion (the title refers to the means by which, in pre-computer days, newspaper stories were killed). This riveting discussion focuses on the way the Soviet Bloc conducts disinformation campaigns, with the witting or unwitting assistance of the Western media. Mr. de Borchgrave: "According to what we've heard from defectors--and we've had access to most defectors from the KGB, the GRU (which is Soviet military intelligence), the Cuban DGI, and other Eastern secret services--to a man (because there isn't a woman among them), they all say the same thing: they have successfully over the years anaesthetized Western opinion-makers and Western governments as to their real intentions." Mr. Moss: "The KGB is ... the largest, most ruthless secret service in the world, with over a million employees, and it's bent on our destruction. Yet we can read very little about it, so when we discuss intelligence in our open society, I often have the feeling that we are watching, let us say, a football match in which only one of the teams is showing. The other team has been magically removed from the screen, so we see the remaining team jumping about, striking absurd postures, kicking, pursuing a ball, all inexplicably."