Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have published nine other cover stories on him, more than on any other man except Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson and Nixon and France's Charles de Gaulle. Kissinger has appeared as a member of "Nixon's Palace Guard" (June 8, 1970), "Nixon's Secret Agent" (Feb. 7, 1972), Man of the Year (with Nixon, Jan. 1, 1973) and, on his elevation to Cabinet rank, "The Super Secretary" (Sept. 3, 1973). Just two months ago (April 1), he was pictured as "The Great Kissinger," a magician conjuring up a dove of peace. "[He] has done the seemingly miraculous...
...latest espionage flap began when Capital, a conservative monthly business magazine, announced that it had obtained a report supposedly prepared by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on Communist spy activity in West Germany. Among other things, said Capital, the report showed that the best-placed East German agent in Bonn was not Guillaume but Nollau, 63, a self-effacing career counterspy who had joined the West German secret service soon after he left East Germany as a refugee...
...addition to military secrets, the average spy in West Germany sends back inside information on government policymaking, back-room politicking and the latest rumors on the diplomatic circuit. If he suffers the humiliation of getting caught by one of West Germany's outnumbered and slow-moving counterespionage agents, he has little to fear. The chances are that after a few years in jail, he will be exchanged for a captured Western agent and will return to a comfortable life as a national hero...
...interviewed by TIME-is for Julia Child's French bread, which also gets high praise from Beard. Other specialties of Mrs. Baer-man's are French croissants and brioches, as well as sourdough bread, which has a tart flavor imparted by a quirky starter, the homemade leavening agent that gold-rush miners used to prize almost as highly as tailings...
...BLACK WINDMILL. At the beginning of this odd, superior little thriller, a British intelligence agent (played with impeccable sangfroid by Michael Caine) discovers that his son has been kidnaped. The ransom demand is well over a million dollars worth of uncut diamonds-exactly the amount that Caine's intelligence unit was about to use to counter an arms-smuggling plot. The fact that the kidnapers know precisely what sum to ask for means there has been a leak at the highest level of security...