Counterintelligence failures highest counter-intelligence officers, with severe effects on morale. Peter Wright, while later extremely controversial about revelations his 1987 book, "Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer", also developed techniques that allowed the UK to track numerous Soviet clandestine agents, and agents under diplomatic cover . James Jesus Angleton, the legendary CIA director of counterespionage and a poet himself, used T. S. Eliot's term "an infinity of mirrors" to describe the intricacies of agent to double agent to triple agent so common in counterespionage, with works describing him as paranoid, while others described him as brilliant. Perhaps the truth
The L Word also been praised for its nuanced consideration (in the first season) of how and in what ways lesbians should stand up to the religious right, with the "Provocations" art show storyline being "a fictionalized version of what happened when Cincinnati's Contemporary Art Center booked a controversial exhibition of Mapplethorpe photographs in 1990". Unlike its network predecessor "Queer as Folk", praised critically for its ground-breaking material that was both well-written and well-acted, there have been complaints from critics regarding "The L Word"'s watered-down, unrealistically glamorous characters and melodrama. Some reviewers (and fans) are put off by the theme song (introduced in