Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...differences between the two groups were sharply revealed when staffers gathered in a CIA auditorium last spring to watch a videotape of an interview in Canada with former Agent Philip Agee, who quit the agency to write an exposé of the CIA (see BOOKS). After the screening, a lively debate broke out between those who felt that some of Agee's charges were well founded and those who denounced him as a contemptible traitor...
...Colby-and Harvard-educated, a successful lawyer, matinee-idol handsome, ramrod stiff (largely the result of a World War II sniper's hit that partly paralyzed him for two years); Williams, a husky, freckled youth, then 26, a dropout from Georgia Southern College, a former Avis car-rental agent. According to Williams' testimony, Gurney told him: "There's a large job that we have to do. I'm glad to have you aboard, and I know you'll do a good...
...apparently was highly corrosive nitrogen tetraoxide (N 2 O 4 ), used as an oxidizer (or combustion agent) in Apollo's small attitude-control thrusters. If it is inhaled, the gas may cause only slight pain and coughing at first; but later, as it works its way into the lung tissue, it can lead to burnlike damage called pulmonary edema, filling the lungs with fluid. During their night aboard the carrier, the astronauts experienced considerable discomfort from coughing and were given cortisone in order to reduce lung inflammation. Next day when the carrier docked at Pearl Harbor, the three were...
Ford's jet Air Force One is tended day and night by a ground crew of about 25. Well before a scheduled trip, an Air Force advance agent goes to the destination and checks out all landing details. Moments before the presidential plane takes off or lands, Secret Service agents drive down the runway to make sure it is clear of debris and to check for bombs...
...attempted to discredit Agee, charging that he is a possible Soviet agent, but all in all the CIA has proved nothing and disproved even less. Agee says he wrote CIA Diary to permit the American people to see for themselves what their government does abroad in their name. The American people might also consider what happens when CIA agents who regularly subvert democratic processes in other countries return to the United States to serve in the government or in private corporations. Maybe we have more in common with Latin America than we think; maybe the CIA is subverting...