Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author introduces Joe Catale, a narcotics agent working out of suite E-311 in the JFK Building in Boston: "Catale is in a pleasant mood because of the numerous convictions that have just resulted from his investigations...
...stock shenanigans pile up, the film shifts back to Robbe-Grillet and Helfon, who discuss whether to have Elias smuggling diamonds instead of dope. Eventually, they decide to forget about an agent who has just gone through Elias' luggage, and generally continue to improvise scene after scene...
...story develops by fits and false starts-filled with cutbacks, recapitulations, inconsistencies, and broad parodies of such moviemakers as Hitchcock and Godard. Spoofy sex is provided by toothsome Marie-France Pisier as a double-agent prostitute, plus the deadpan hero's fatal fetish for naked girls locked up in chains. There is some excellent photography and a surprise-on-surprise ending that confuses even Robbe-Grillet...
Each working day in Moscow, a chunky, blue-eyed Englishman arrives at the KGB headquarters at No. 2 Dzerzhinsky Square to pursue his duties as "chief adviser" in Russian espionage against Britain, the Commonwealth and the U.S. He is well equipped for the job. As the most successful double agent of modern times, Kim Philby O.B.E., scion of the British Establishment, Cambridge University, would very likely now be the head of the British Secret Service had he not been discovered and forced to flee to Russia...
Five years later, the massive scar tissue left on British intelligence has begun to heal, and diligent reporters are prying out coherent accounts of Philby's 34 years as a Soviet agent. Even now the full truth is not known, as illustrated by the fact that these four books show discrepancies at critical points. For example, how did Philby, as the net closed around him, escape from Beirut to asylum in Russia? The authors of Conspiracy, a team of reporters from the London Sunday Times, suggest that he made it to the Syrian border in a Turkish truck; then...