When she gets journalism mixed up with spying, her family and neighbors are not amused, and her fellow sixth graders form a spy catchers' club.

Mr. Webster, 78, has the distinction of being the only person to have served as the nation's chief spy master and the nation's chief spy catcher.

I think Mr Hankin's career as a spy catcher is about to come to a sticky end,' Mrs Boxall said to me and then started to laugh.

By the early '60s, American spy catchers had learned to beware of Russians bearing gifts.

For seven years, senior C.I.A. officials refused to share crucial information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's spy catchers.

And strip the F.B.I. of its role as the nation's chief spy catcher.

After all, she'd never claimed to be a spy catcher, and she found the whole cloak-and-dagger enterprise a deplorable necessity she was ill suited for.

An odd couple, really; a spy catcher and a spy writer.

Smith, a veteran spy catcher, had guessed her intention to destroy these microdots.

It could also be seen through the eyes of a seasoned spy catcher.