Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million "confidential fund," which is supposed to be spent on informants. Hoover's top aides sometimes drew on the fund for lavish dinner parties, costing up to $500, at the Carriage House, a Georgetown restaurant. The only informing that took place at the blowouts was done by the agents themselves-no actual informants ever attended. Recalling one of the dinners, an agent told TIME: "It started with cocktails and crab meat, then there were oysters, followed by steak and wine and French pastries and brandy. When I got home, I was woozy. My doctor believed that I was having...
Last week Kelley appointed Richard G. Held, 65, as Callahan's successor. In charge of the FBI'S Chicago office for the past three years, Held is highly regarded by associates. Perhaps most important to Kelley, Held has spent most of his 35 years as an agent in the field, far from the snake pit that was the FBI's Washington headquarters during the Hoover years...
Less susceptible to persuasion was a union business agent from Pennsylvania. Said he: "The Southern Baptist thing still bothers a lot of people, including me. And Carter is an amateur surrounded by amateurs." But later he, too, softened: "At heart I'm a Democrat." Many more labor delegates shared the mood of Jim Mahoney, executive vice president of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO: "There will be enthusiasm for Carter. AFL-CIO President George Meany wants to go all the way for the Democratic ticket, and we're starting now, not two months from...
...Paradise: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.' That defense was overruled by the great Lawgiver, and [it] has never since availed." Well, hardly ever. The defense was recognized for the first time in a federal court in 1915. In two later cases-involving a police agent in 1932 who begged an acquaintance for some bootleg liquor and a paid informer in 1958 who led a reformed addict back to drugs and then got him arrested for dealing-the Supreme Court drew a line "between the trap for the unwary innocent and the trap for the unwary...
...over-the-transom novel called Ordinary People did not stop there. Sales to Redbook, Ballantine Paperbacks, Reader's Digest Condensed Books and the Book-of-the-Month Club soon followed. Robert Redford's company has just bought the film rights. Judith Guest still does not have an agent, but with any luck she stands to collect something like half a million dollars. Will the resulting cash and carrying-on spoil things in the big, elm-shrouded house in the Minneapolis suburb where the author lives with her husband, three sports-mad sons aged 16, twelve and eleven...