Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, may have more difficulty combatting the numbers game ?or bolita or the policy racket?because its networks of runners are big employers in the ghettos and amount to major community industries. Notes Max Renner, a New York investigation commission special agent: "Even when the numbers in Harlem was operated by white mobsters, 90% of the take stayed there." Thus powerful politicians from poor urban constituencies have traditionally opposed serious attempts to drive the numbers out of business...
...Project R," as Wander calls it, centers around a chemical agent known as TAF (tumor angiogenesis factor...
European narcs are finding it hard to crack the Chinese Connection because they never made contact with their Chinese communities. Amsterdam police, for example, have only one Cantonese-speaking agent; hired translators face jarring death threats. Among street-level dealers and users, the triads enforce a ruthless code of silence that shields the trade's heroin "Godfathers." Time-tested techniques-infiltration, bribes, informers-have proved almost useless. "They're very closed," says a top French investigator, "and won't deal with anyone with round eyes...
...account, Philip Agee is no stranger to dirty tricks. The author of a 1975 book about the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine Latin American activities, ex-agent Agee freely admitted his own role in bugging a foreign embassy and planting phony incriminating evidence on a leftist politician who was in disfavor with the CIA. Last week Agee, a resident of Britain for the past four years, claimed that he personally was the target of spookdom's latest dirty trick. Scotland Yard detectives knocked on the door of his Cambridge home and served him with a deportation letter...
...musician named Eric Wood (Richard Baskin) and his flailing efforts to finish a record album. Wood's music bears all the other characters along. Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine), who wrote some of the tunes that Wood records, is an itinerant composer called back to L.A. by his agent (Viveca Lindfors) at the request of his businessman father (Denver Pyle), who has not seen his son in three years. Carroll puts up in a rented house supplied by a real estate woman (Sally Kellerman), who also sends along a young maid (Sissy Spacek) with a disposition for topless housecleaning...