41.   A judge on Thursday set free a former British spy wanted by the United States on charges linked to alleged illegal arms sales.

42.   Among them are former CIA director William Webster and Oleg Kalugin, who was chief of counterintelligence for the KGB, the former Soviet spy agency.

43.   Authorities have accused a few former spies of acting as double agents.

44.   Authorities were able to confirm that Montesinos left the yacht when people on the tourist boat identified the former spy chief from a picture.

45.   Bowing to opposition, Yeltsin nominates acting foreign minister and former spy chief Yevgeny Primakov as prime minister.

46.   Both are linked to Vladimiro Montesinos, a former spy chief whose relationship with former President Alberto Fujimori led to a change of government in Peru in November.

47.   Bulgaria is trying to join NATO, and alliance states are demanding that the former Soviet ally purge its ranks of former spies.

48.   BRITAIN-SPY NEST, a property developer snaps up former spy headquarters.

49.   But on Tuesday, Venezuela denied the FBI helped locate the Peruvian former spy chief in Caracas.

50.   But standing in the way of renewed talks was the specter of the former spy chief.