Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press as being on trial during the Foreign Relations Committee investigation. Before Dodd went to Germany in April 1964, he was admittedly "anxious to do anything I could" to set Klein's record straight. Yet Dodd insisted that he did not make the trip as an "advocate or agent" for the lobbyist but as a fact finder for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Though he saw several West German officials, he said that he mentioned Klein only once, to former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and then only after Adenauer raised the subject...
Klement was wrong, and fatally indiscreet. A tape recorder was taking it all down (the cronies wanted a record of their thoughts). A transcript fell into the hands of the Israeli secret service, and early in 1960 an Israeli agent arrived in Buenos Aires to look Klement over. Pretending to represent a British sewing-machine company that was seeking a factory site, the agent called on the Klements' neighbors. Yes, the lady there was interested in selling her property. The agent wondered if the people next door might also be interested. Unexpectedly, the woman jumped to the window...
When Klement heard about this from his wife, he grew suspicious, for the neighborhood was remote; why should anyone choose it for a factory? In the end, he put aside his doubts. The Israeli agent secretly photographed him, and from these pictures came convincing identification. In April 1960, other Israeli agents carried off the celebrated kidnaping that delivered Adolf Eichmann to Jerusalem...
...lived in this stuff, otherwise I would have remained only an assistant, a cog, something soulless." Now he disclaimed responsibility, insisted that he had indeed been a cog, merely transmitting orders. But the evidence was crushing that he had acted, as witnesses put it, as "the great forwarding agent of death," the efficient zealot who directed the action phases of "the final solution...
...from someone I hadn't seen since Manila in '44." On the subject of his traditional hat he says, "When I was a kid in New York everyone over 21 wore a hat, unless you were a creep." And when he thinks about the recent movie offers and his agent's maneuverings, the shuddering reaction is, "I never had two nickels to put together and when she calls to say she's turned down $100,000 it packs...