1.   ...the exposure of Anthony Blunt as a former Soviet spy.

2.   As a former senior spy in Britain, Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe, he should know.

3.   Bin Wu, a former Chinese spy, has an immigration problem.

4.   Both Democrats and conservative Republicans said the president should not have been so quick to praise Putin, a former KGB spy.

5.   Both the former spy chief and his boss eventually fled the country.

6.   A former KGB spy, Putin also sought to soothe the fears of those who were apprehensive about his past in the feared Soviet secret police.

7.   A nervous Yeltsin responded by replacing his pro-Western foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev, with Yevgeny Primakov, a former spy chief.

8.   Few took the allegations seriously, because the only evidence was the word of unnamed former Soviet spies.

9.   Fujimori led the armed forces hunt for the former spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.

10.   Free speech advocates said it showed that Putin, a former KGB spy, was intent on stifling the press and exerting authoritarian rule.