Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time being, however, the King and the Socialist need each other. To head off a threatened boycott of moderate leaders that could ruin next month's Afro-Asian Summit Conference in Algiers, Ben Bella badly needs to change his image as an agent of subversion and revolution. How better to do so than by appearing friendly to his good neighbor Hassan, who is influential among the moderates of both...
Lieut. Colonel Hillman was asked by an armband-wearer: "What do napalm or gas do to a person when used in Viet Nam?" Said he: "The gas you speak of is a misnomer as we normally understand gas. It is better described as an incapacitating agent, one already in use in the United States by police and Army . . ." Yelled a heckler: "Does it work against Negroes?" Continued Hillman: "To answer the rest of the question, what does napalm do? It burns...
...FRENCH DOLL by Vincent McConnor. 250 pages. Hill & Wang. $3.95. In this one the agent works for the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency. He starts off impersonating an American pilot who has been dead some 20 years but who sold an important flight chart to the Nazis in the last days of World War II. Bullets and bodies start falling around him the minute he assumes the disguise. This book is in the older tradition of shoot first and don't ask questions afterward because what is one life anyhow. But it also provides a kind of Paris...
MIDNIGHT PLUS ONE by Gavin Lyall. 249 pages. Scribner. $4.50. Lewis Cane, hero of this adventure yarn, is a former British agent who ran guns for the French Resistance during World War II. After 15 years of private-eying, he finds himself back on the Continent convoying a fugitive millionaire industrialist from Brittany to Liechtenstein. In the course of dodging everyone from police to the hired killers who are after the industrialist, Cane retraces his old Resistance route through the Auvergne, encountering wartime friends and enemies and fighting several pitched battles along the way. British Author Lyall...
...foreign students, afraid of losing their visas, might retreat into political silence. Similarly, American students may curb their activism to avoid contact with the Bureau. Although they are legally under no obligation to answer questions unless subpoenaed, they are confronted by a distasteful dilemma: refusal to answer an agent's queries or an interview itself will "go on their record," hurting their chances for a government job in the future...