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Into the Archives: Uncovering Details About a Spy Case Through Studying Microfiche
In my quest to learn more about James Harper, I left the comfort of my laptop to go to San Jose Public Library and scoured through the microfiche to learn more about his spy activities from the early 1980s.
The Silicon Valley Spy Who Was As American As Apple Pie
While reporting Spy Valley, I was amazed at how tightly James Harper’s life story was intertwined with the evolution of the cold war—and the birth of Silicon Valley.
On Getting To Know An American Spy For Moscow's Proxies
James Harper was perhaps the most perplexing interview subject of my journalistic career.
The counterintelligence life: a remembrance of FBI agent Bill Kinane
In 1998, amid the chaos and corruption of post-Soviet Russia, Galina Starovoytova, a popular pro-democracy legislator and dissident, was assassinated in her apartment building in St. Petersburg. Many suspected that she had been targeted for her outspoken liberal views. Soon after the killing, Bill Kinane, an FBI legal attaché in
