Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newly appointed Police Director Ross V. Randolph, whose salary of $25,000 is the city's highest, is making his presence felt. He is a former FBI agent, prison warden and state director of public safety. Randolph has announced plans to open storefront police offices in the hope of improving communications between the city's authorities and its deeply mistrustful blacks. One of the priorities facing his undermanned and undermanaged force of 92 officers is to halt an unexplained wave of snipings. Since the beginning of last year, 31 people have been wounded, two killed. Only last week...
...over America. Another, Cat's Cradle, began with a reporter trying to fix the whereabouts of important Americans at the time the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and ended with the end of the world. A third, Mother Night, explored the guilt of a patriotic spy and propaganda agent, "a man," as Vonnegut summed him up, "who served evil too openly and good too secretly, the crime of his times...
...opening program at the Welles will be Bunuel's simon of the Desert and Welles's Immortal Story; the midnight show is Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Peter Jaszi '68, Gitter's film booking agent, plans to book both first-run art films and rarely seen American classics into the theatre. Audience suggestions will be a prime factor in his selection of films, he said...
...come-in-from-the-cold novelists have schooled us all in the vileness of the espionage agent's world. Murder, kidnaping, blackmail and the theft of secrets, moreover, hardly appear to be the stuff of which peace is made. Yet there is much documented support for Hagen's claim. His main concern lies in Europe, and he makes a convincing case that since 1945, the balance of power there has been partially maintained through the growth, care and feeding of espionage agencies...
Because of the fear and fluidity in postwar Europe, the Russians found Gehlen's organization easy to infiltrate with double agents, primarily ex-Nazis like Heinz Felfe. Felfe, similar to Britain's renowned traitor Kim Philby, for ten years ran the Russian desk of West Germany's counterintelligence service. Acting as a Russian agent, Felfe effectively negated the Gehlen organization's counterespionage efforts against Russia while keeping Russia informed on operational intentions of the END and the Allies. The exposure of Felfe's treachery in 1961 almost cost Gehlen...