Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most notorious Communist bail-jumper to date: Gerhart Eisler, top Cominform agent in the U.S. until 1949, when he forfeited his $23,500 bond and got out of New York on the Polish ship Batory. Fugitive Eisler became East Germany's propaganda chief, and then was placed in charge of preventing escapes across the border...
Gouzenko, 35, intends to go on paying the Soviets back in "one novel after another," and promises to tell more of his personal story in his second novel, built around the mental conflict in a Soviet agent between his duty to Russia and the "emotional appeal of a free society...
After two weeks' work as British propaganda agent in Paris at the start of World War II, Noel Coward decided to report back to London on his progress. On a supersecret telephone, Agent Coward muttered a strictly hush-hush number-to which the operator responded with "a shrill scream of laughter" that set poor Noel's conspiratorial nerves jangling. A few seconds later, however, Coward found himself connected with his superior officer, Dallas Brooks, in London and started to unburden...
...Diplomat," repeated Agent Coward firmly, and pressed on: "I [have] interviewed 'Lion' . . . established successful contact with 'Glory,' [have] not yet been able to get into touch with 'Triumph' j) "What the bloody hell are you talking about?" Brooks roared back...
...sighed wearily and said: "It's no good, old boy. I can't understand a word." By the Numbers. Brooks "explained some weeks later . . . that he had been asleep when I rang up and thought I was [someone named] Reggie!" He also tried to atone by teaching Agent Coward a new code consisting "entirely of numbers" and of such awful complexity that "if ever I had been captured by the Gestapo they would certainly have had a tough time getting me to betray it." But by then poor Noel was beginning to realize that he and intelligence were...