Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard offered the land for the $47-million project in February as part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed between Harvard and RTH. Harvard's recognized neighborhood bargaining agent for the area...
...instructed Edwards to explore the feasibility of the project. For help, Edwards turned to a former FBI agent and later Howard Hughes associate, Robert A. Maheu. Maheu, then a private consultant and investigator, was believed to have a line to Mafia interests that had operated gambling casinos in Havana. Through the connection, Edwards sought to find out whether the Mafia could produce, if need be, a man in Havana in a position to liquidate Castro...
...passionate prewar brand of patriotism, Park transformed it into a fervent allegiance to Korea. He joined the new Korean army in 1946 and enjoyed a swift rise, interrupted only once, in 1948; ironically, for so militant an antiCommunist, he was tried and acquitted of being a Communist agent...
...Northrop, after some haggling, paid $500,000 to a company believed to be controlled by Saudi Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, a registered commercial agent for several companies, for advancing Northrop sales...
...auditors' report also revealed that Northrop runs a far-flung network of semiautonomous intelligence and sales agents who collect information, pull strings and distribute money in countries as diverse as Brazil and West Germany. Some of the agents operate entirely legitimately. But John R. Hunt, a former Northrop executive, was quoted in the Senate subcommittee hearings as telling the auditors: "The role of the agent is primarily that of influence peddler; that is, he knows whom to talk to and whose pockets to line in a particular country to get the job done...