Informed Sources

New Book Points to More Moles

A forthcoming book by ex-KGB counterintelligence chief Oleg Kalugin describes alleged Soviet agents who worked against the West in the 1970s. Among the purported spies exposed in the book (to be published by St. Martin's Press) are a high-ranking mole inside the counterintelligence section of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a U.S. military-intelligence officer who is said to have turned over CIA documents and NATO war plans.

As the Gavel Turns

Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons eased into the plum job of House Ways and Means Committee chair after ex-chairman Dan Rostenkowski was indicted. But his hold on the gavel may be tenuous. The buzz among Democrats is that a challenge to Gibbons will be mounted in January if he fails to persuade the committee to back a version of Clinton's health-care bill before July 4 or is unable to muster credible influence when and if such a bill comes up in the full House.

Conservative Copycats

In a rare case of agreement between the conservative Heritage Foundation and the White House, parts of a report on the Uruguay Round trade pact released by Heritage scholar Joe Cobb turned out to have been lifted almost word for word from an Administration study. When the lapse was uncovered, Heritage rushed out a new report with attributed quotations. Even so, Heritage maintains Cobb's "analysis and conclusions are entirely his own."