Who's an "intelligence spook"?

Hypothetically, venture into the world of possibilities with me for a moment. There is a world of Nationalists and Globalists. One group wants a single nation to control world events, and the other group wants the nations of the world to control world events together. Elected officials of all countries carry the water for these two groups. The biggest and baddest country has an investigation into law breaking by its elected officials near the top of the public power pyramid. The invisible power pyramid, controlled in all countries by Militarists, Intelligence, Big Finance and Big Energy, initiated the investigation because the elected wonderkinds were getting either too big for their britches or were screwing up royally.

Then, hypothetically, the investigation seems to be stalling out with some underlings in the public power pyramid getting into trouble. All of a sudden, a news reporter, with access into the private power pyramid all his or her life, sends a lightening bolt into the investigation that untangles the investigative deadlock and moves the investigation into the highest levels of the public power pyramid again. Heads are about to roll. Who is this reporter? How does he or she continue to get access into the private power pyramid.......unless he or she is carrying the water for them?

Bob Novak asked the press to stop bothering him and Bob Woodward. Novak asks the President to come forward with a source in the Valerie Plame investigation. How did Woodward get involved with this, Nixon, Mark Felt, and Bill Casey....

Who is an intelligence spook?