queasy amateur recruits From page 18 James Bond creator lan Fleming once observed, “playing Red Indians”, tuming the tables on one another like the black and white characters of Mad Magazine's Spy Vs Spy cartoons. It took the Cold War to suppos- edly raise disinformation to a high art and no one was better at it than Markus Wolf, head of the “Stasi”, East Germany's state police, foreign intelligence section. Leslie Collitt's portrait of Wolf in Spymaster (Addison-Wesley, $32.00) exposes Wolf as a peerless bureaucratic careerist, a seductive handler of top agents and a morally bankrupt cynic who has never acknowledged responsibility for the incalculable human misery that resulted from his shadowy games of international one-upmanship, Wolf was the model for Le Carre's dreaded “Karla”, the ulti- mate spymaster and implacable nemesis of the nerdy Brit, George Smiley, yet Collitt’s bio shows an ‘organization man’ who knew how to bend every rule of his profession to win, but when the parameters were changed, found himself tread- ing water out of his depth. But even the Cold War was not the domain of technocrat super spies portrayed in books and films. Ina revelatory final act of the con- flict the American CIA, finally ia 1994, arrested one of it’s own, Aldrich “Rick” Ames, a career - screw-up who, in spite of discipli- nary warnings about his poor per- formance and drinking, managed to flub his way into the Agency's inner circle. Once there, he betrayed it's most valuable Soviet agents to the ~ Russians. * It’s hard-for New York Times’ Washington correspondents Tim Weiner, David Johnston and Neil Lewis to make much of a tale of the double life of the pathetic Ames and his Columbian wife in their joint book Betrayal, (Random House, $33.95). Ames was an arrogant, fairly , unlikable iwit who betrayed his country and sealed the fate of many foreign agents not for ideological reasons, but simply for the oldest motive in espionage: moncy. Betrayal inevitably reads a bit like a padded-out version of the kind of collaborative articles published in newsmagazines. 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