Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sent up to Fort Hood, Texas, Gessner at first refused to tell interrogators just what he had been up to in Mexico City. Finally, according to former Army Counterintelligence Agent William V. Benson Jr., he broke down after a visit to the post chaplain, gave Benson a tape-recorded confession. "I gave them all," said Gessner of his dealings with the Russians. "I knew these weapons were going to be used on little children." At one point, Benson asked Gessner about a particular weapon. "This is not important. Julius and Ethel gave it to them in 1948," said Gessner. "Julius...
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. This dry spoof of Ian Fleming's fiction follows Secret Agent 007 (Sean Connery) to Istanbul where wine, women and wrongs are swiftly and impeccably Bonded...
...Among Frenchmen, who have long had a penchant for ideological crime, the rumors went back to last year's arrest of Yale Professor Frederick Barghoorn in the Soviet Union on spy charges. According to this account, the CIA had solemnly denied to Kennedy that Barghoorn was a CIA agent, but when the professor returned he told the President that he had indeed been spying for the CIA. Angered, Kennedy threatened a wholesale shake-up of the intelligence agency. Later the CIA got wind of the plot against Kennedy-but did not warn him because the agency wanted to eliminate...
Panic & Poo-Poo Guns. Egged on by a Liberation Committee agent, a loosely organized band of 5,000 pygmoid Bafulero tribesmen rose against the Congolese army. Armed with poisoned arrows and "poopoo guns" (homemade muzzle loaders that fire bolts and nails) and anointed with mai Mulele (Swahili for "water of Mulele"), the 5-ft.-tall warriors believed they had been filled with a juice that made them invulnerable to bullets. In their first encounter with government troops, screaming, white-painted Bafulero died in droves under a hail of bullets near the village of Kamaniola...
Born in Hungary 58 years ago, Deak holds a doctorate in economics, can talk money in five languages, used to work for the League of Nations. A naturalized American, he spent World War II as an OSS agent parachuting into Burmese jungles to search for Japanese prisoners. On a postwar assignment, he sneaked Hungarian boxcars past the Russian occupiers to help rebuild West Germany's railways. Deak still keeps in OSS trim with a vegetarian diet, daily sprints around his own suburban running track, and ski trips with his Viennese wife. From a paneled office (cable address: Deaknick) overlooking...