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...became a clever inside man, adept at the computers the FBI was introducing to keep track of its counterintelligence activities. He helped set up the Intelligence Investigative System into which agents dumped names, addresses, likes, dislikes and other telling minutiae about Soviet targets, giving him access to the true names of every FBI intelligence source in New York. He also worked with the electronics specialists who roamed the night streets installing bugs and cameras to watch over Soviet officials. And he was very inquisitive about everything going on around him. "I just figured he was nosy," says the former colleague...
...Traffickers are loosely organized, investigators say, sometimes operating under the aegis of larger criminal organizations and sometimes working alone. At the point of contact-where women are first approached with an offer to travel or work abroad-recruiters are often former trafficking victims or others adept at gaining girls' trust. In Moldova, known recruiters include the daughter of a village priest and the wife of a policeman. They also routinely use classified ads in newspapers or on the Internet. "Jobs for girls without complexes, $800 a week," read one published not long ago in Makler, the Chisinau newspaper. When...
...triumphed over the Brooklyn Dodgers in one of the most mythologized games in baseball history, known for its "shot heard round the world," but the Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Giants probably read the Dodgers' pitching signals by placing in the center-field clubhouse a coach adept at deciphering signals with a telescope...
Karlen has become adept at controlling the rhythm of his matches, alternating between rocket-like strokes and deftly crafted drop shots...
...Which R.E.M. Displays a Shocking Lack of Sentimentality The publicity folks for the festival seem to be working as hard as they can - one head flack seemed close to tears at the end of Friday - but they haven't been all that adept at providing ready access to the artists. There's a presidential inauguration-like, Puffy Daddy-esque amount of security at the festival. For example, each day VIPs were given different credit card-like swipe cards to gain access the festival and the various restricted tents. I think the almost paranoid amount of security has something...