Because the Commodore thinks that spies slipped aboard at Circum-Terra.

"But for you I should have allowed that abominable spy to slip through our fingers."

The spy, Stig Bergling, a former officer in the Swedish intelligence service, slipped away Oct. 5 after the police left him unguarded during a visit to his wife's apartment outside Stockholm.

Is she a spy of yours, someone who can slip a knife in my back some night if you get annoyed with me?

The spy, Stig Bergling, 50 years old, slipped away from a Stockholm apartment with his wife on Monday after the police left him unguarded during the 24-hour conjugal visit.

His spies slip through every net, and his birds of ill omen are abroad in the sky.

In a public appearance that broke every rule in the rule book of good espionage, the nation's top spy slipped from behind the wall of secrecy that surrounds the Central Intelligence Agency - and talked.

Our spies were always slipping into Korsh disguised as slaves.

The move will probably hearten those cold-war aficionados who thrill to the memory of the watchtowers and border fortifications through which spies and dissidents slipped at their peril into lands where secret agents fought their sinister battles.

"The second identity that your missing spy slipped into."