An Army civilian from a Fort Lewis, Wash., "force protection division" infiltrated a Seattle-area antiwar group posing as an anarchist who could steal classified information for the organization, according to little-noticed news reports.

A member of the antiwar group said documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that his friend and fellow activist "John Jacob" was actually military spy John Towery.

A Fort Lewis spokesman confirmed that Towery was employed on the base but would offer no additional information because he "performs sensitive law enforcement work with the installation law enforcement community." 

You'd think that the nation's number one domestic counterterrorism agency would have better things to do than yap at authors and publishers about using the bureau's official seal on their books.

But I.C. Smith, a retired senior FBI counterintelligence agent who wrote a very critical book about the bureau in 2004, just found out otherwise.

A few weeks ago an FBI lawyer instructed Smith that he had to remove the FBI seal from his Web site, including one on the jacket of his 2004 book, "INSIDE: A Top G Man Exposes Spies, Lies and Bureaucratic Bungling Inside the FBI."    

The G-lawyer also told Smith that the publisher of his book, Thomas Nelson, Inc., would also be instructed "that if the book is reprinted, the cover be redesigned to remove the FBI Seal."

A job ad for an advanced counterintelligence instructor at a Defense Department school has professionals in the field hopping mad.

Why? The ad, placed by a military subcontractor, says "No Education Required."

It "left me speechless," said John Lenczowski, founder and president of the Institute for World Politics (IWP), in a widely circulated e-mail to friends deploring the minimal requirement for an instructor at the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy, in Elkridge, Md.

A former CIA Soviet expert says that one of the agency's top Russian spies in the Cold War was a double agent under the control of Moscow.

Benjamin  Fischer, who sued the agency for ruining his career because of his beliefs, argues that Adolf Tolkachev, a Soviet electronics technician at a classified military research facility, was working for Moscow when he offered himself to the CIA as a spy in the 1980s and stayed under their control for the six years he worked for U.S. intelligence.

The CIA considered Tolkachev its greatest prize in the 1980s, "a worthy successor"  to Oleg Penkovsky, the infamous Soviet colonel two decades earlier who provided the U.S. with Russian secrets during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, in the words of an internal CIA paper.

Kyle "Dusty" Foggo's CIA dossier included allegations that he was sharing a woman with a suspected Russian mole, according to a top former spy agency official and other sources.

CIA Director Porter J. Goss knew about the allegation when he hired Foggo to be the agency's executive director, its third highest official, an aide said Thursday.