Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SMART! (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). In "Washington 4, Indians 3," intrepid Agent Maxwell Smart is sent to dissuade a band of Indians intent on getting their country back by use of a secret weapon...
...IPCRESS FILE. An insubordinate British secret agent (Michael Caine) stumbles through bureaucratic red tape into some no-nonsense adventures that often seem pointedly anti-Bond...
...another parody; this time the hero is Hebrew Secret Agent Oy Oy 7. His real name: Israel Bond...
Cloaked as a training operation, preparations are made to send an agent to the suspected area. A house is rented near the East border, where a naturalized Pole who worked for the Department twenty years before is given refresher courses in radio operations and self-defense. But the equipment is obsolete, and the agent's wartime skills have not improved. From the beginning his capture seems certain, and the operation may--it is a point only hinted at--signal the Department's demise...
...effect and characterization. More than half the book follows the genesis and execution of the East German mission, and the technical details never seem false or obtrusive. One believes that such preparation would be sufficient for a real-life as well as a fictional undercover agent. Once in East Germany, the man's mistakes diminish our hopes that somehow he will succeed only to excite our curiosity as to precisely how he will fail...