Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Needled Agent. The Russian spy mania requires battalions of clerks to transcribe, translate and file what has been overheard, as well as "evaluators" to judge its significance. A U.S. official concedes that the Moscow bugs may have picked up "potentially useful fragments," but adds that "getting them sorted out and fitting them together would require a very large investment in time and effort for a potentially small return...
Western diplomats sometimes use Soviet bugs for their own purposes. They may feed them false information or use them to needle a top Russian agent they would like to get rid of, either by suggesting he is on the U.S. payroll or hinting he is having an affair with some Soviet minister's wife. In fact, skeptics wondered last week why such old-fashioned bugs had remained immune so long to modern detection devices. Was it because the U.S. knew the mikes were there and employed them to plant phony data? And why did the U.S. choose this particular...
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Pouris and hired assassins play it mostly for laughs when Sean Connery arrives in Istanbul as Ian Fleming's Bond bombshell, Secret Agent...
...like a key into a lock. But proteins are hard to handle and almost impossible to synthesize, so Bayer looked for simpler compounds that would do the same job. After many tries, he put together a black granular material that picks up copper and uranium only. When this "chelating agent" worked well in the laboratory with simulated sea water, Bayer took it to Naples, put it in a glass column and ran 100 liters (26.42 gal.) of real sea water through it. Then he flushed the chelating agent with dilute hydrochloric acid. Analysis proved that the acid had picked...
...achievement was impressive, but Bayer had his eye on the much more difficult feat of capturing the ocean's gold. He concocted another chelating agent with an appetite for gold and went back once more to Naples. There he put a pinch of the new compound in 100 liters of sea water and shook the mixture mechanically for twelve hours. Then he filtered out the chelating agent and washed it with acid. The result: 1.4 micrograms of gold (.000000049 oz.), the exact amount in 100 liters of Naples sea water...