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From: "Stephen R. Balzac" 

    Date: Wednesday, 9 January 1985  14:55-EST
    From: Dean Sutherland 
    To:   SF-LOVERS at MIT-MC
    Re:   Can anyone identify

    this book?  It was written by Alan E. Nourse (I think...)

    Hero is a member of "Earth Intelligence".  He is trying to catch a
    spy for the "bad guys" (I don't remember who they are).  The spy has
    the ability to teleport himself from any point on a planet to any
    other, or to teleport from ground to orbit (or vice versa).  I
    recall that the Earth empire held together because their military
    could supposedly cause suns to nova.

    The only other thing that I remember is that many characters turn
    out to actually be different people than the reader is led to
    believe.  In fact, at least one character really isn't the person HE
    thought he was...


This one is (I think) "The Programmed Man".  The author is not Nourse,
but a husband/wife team, in the early part of the alphabet.