Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRDS FALL DOWN, by Rebecca West. This discursive novel , about a Russian double agent explores the recesses of the Slavic mind without explaining much about Dame Rebecca's chosen specialty, the meaning of treason...
Wednesday, November 2 SHIPSTADS AND JOHNSON ICE FOLLIES (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Agent 86 (Don Adams) will be on hand as host to Smarten up this year's Folly...
Still, tentative moves are beginning to be made, with the U.S. often acting as a catalytic agent to bring them together. In the drafting of the Manila Conference communique, said an Australian official, without resentment, "It was the U.S. all the way, from impregnation to gestation to delivery." Thanks largely to the protective canopy of U.S. power, the nations of the region enjoy the freedom to develop their own way. The value of that canopy was not lost on Asia's nations last week when Red China reported that it had launched a nuclear missile and may soon...
Conversion? On the face of it, swarthy, Dutch-born George Behar Blake, 44, was a British MI-6 (military intelligence) agent who had sold out to the Russians, and for nine years-from Berlin, London and Beirut-fed Moscow everything that came his way. At his hush-hush trial in 1961, Blake admitted to passing "every document" he saw to the Russians, thus blowing the covers of British agents in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. It took the court only 69 minutes to award Blake the longest sentence for espionage in recent British history: 42 years.* The trial raised...
Died. Douglas Stringfellow, 44, Utah Republican Congressman from 1952 to 1954, a paraplegic veteran whose wondrous accounts of his World War II adventures as an OSS agent got him elected, were broadcast on This Is Your Life, serialized in the press, then exploded as a hoax in 1954 (he had never been in combat, was injured in an accident), after which he became a landscape painter; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...