Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diary that Agee tells us that he was one of the countless college graduates that were "Made in America" all stamped out of the same white, suburban liberal mold. This background is important to Agee not only because he wants to tell us what he did as a CIA agent in Latin America; he also wants us to understand why he did it and to agree with him that trees grown on American soil must produce rotten fruit...
Thanks to his new friend. Crooks got a softer job as a shipping agent in a neighboring brickyard, a job he held until World War II broke out and he jumped at the chance to get out of Pennsylvania. He became an Army officer, serving combat duty in Italy until at daybreak one morning he walked over a hill where some of his men were setting up a new position to find a lot of Germans pointing machine guns at him. He was captured; they took him to a prison camp in Poland for a year...
Vicious Nonsense. It was long rumored in Washington that Butterfield had been the "CIA man" in the White House and that the relationship was known to Nixon. As a contact, Butterfield would have routinely handled requests from the CIA. That certainly did not make him an "agent." CIA Director William Colby angrily maintained that the claim that the agency had infiltrated the White House was "outrageous, vicious nonsense." Without clearing Butterfield unequivocally, the White House declared that as far as it knew, no presidential aide had ever acted as "a secret CIA agent...
...have "infiltrated" the White House, as charged, but the bothersome question remained of just when a contact man becomes so loyal to the agency that in effect he turns into its agent. As time goes on, the congressional committees investigating the CIA will want to know more about the agency's invisible web of influence that stretches throughout Washington. The CIA's ordeal has a long, long...
Psychosis Delusions. Olson was taken to New York by two men, Army Colonel Vincent Ruwet, a colleague at Fort Detrick, and a man named Robert Lashbrook, who the Olson family later said they believed was a CIA agent. A psychiatric examination of Olson was conducted by Dr. Harold Abramson, now 75, who had done pioneering work on LSD. Abramson found that Olson was suffering from "severe psychosis and delusions," and recommended that he enter a sanitarium...