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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First Affair. The recruitment of Haavik as a Soviet agent evidently stemmed from her lifelong infatuation with everything Russian-especially men. Her first affair, in the 1930s, was innocent enough: it involved a refugee Soviet artist who left her with fluent Russian. Then, at the end of World War II, Haavik was recruited by Norwegian forces to work as a nurse and interpreter with Soviet prisoners who had been held by the Nazis in local P.O.W. camps. There she fell in love again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: From Russia with Lovers | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...years as an agent, Haavik collected a paltry $9,500. If convicted as a spy she could get 15 years in jail -a prisoner of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: From Russia with Lovers | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Strangest of all is that when Raines complains to Rental Agent Ava Gardner, she is told that those other apartments have been unoccupied for years. Is she going mad? Is she the victim of a bizarre plot by her lover (Chris Sarandon), a lawyer with shady connections? Poor girl, if only she had seen such essays in pop demonology as The Exorcist and The Omen, she would realize that she is simply, almost literally, going to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hellish Huggermugger | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...emergency union meeting. When the University slapped Gallagher with a five-day suspension and docked her two hours pay, she filed a grievance against Harvard with the National Labor Relations Board. Several weeks later, Harvard offered Gallagher only a part-time summer job, that Gallagher's legal agent says could have downgraded her employment status...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Swindle | 2/16/1977 | See Source »

...first American killed in Vietnam was an NSA agent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The NSA And Harvard | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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