Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief Tonis learned about the tunnels the hard way. Back in 1939. Tonis was an FBI agent assigned to tail a certain German spy in the U.S. Upon arriving in South Station, the suspect checked in at a Boston hotel and took a cab to Harvard, where he entered one of the River Houses. In the evening, he returned to his hotel. The next day he repeated his visit to Cambridge, entering the same House. But he never came...
...sorry," the man muttered in a thick accent, then hopped into a taxi. The same evening, Markov developed a high fever. Four days later he died, but not before telling friends that he thought he had been stabbed by a poison-tipped umbrella wielded by a Communist agent...
...another reason to suspect Sofia. If Markov had in fact been jabbed by a poison-tipped or poison-firing umbrella?or had been shot with a pellet gun by a man holding an umbrella?only a security service would probably have such sophisticated gadgetry at hand. Today's secret agents and hit men have access to numerous James Bondian devices that can make murder look like natural death ?poison delivered by aerosol spray, tiny darts fired from pens or cigarette boxes. In the late '50s a KGB agent killed two Ukrainian exile leaders in Germany by squirting prussic acid...
...conventional nuclear reactors abroad after only "abbreviated environmental reviews"; such precautions, mandatory under environmental laws, are one reason why many foreign buyers have turned to other suppliers. The President also ordered the Justice Department to draw up clear guidelines so that U.S. businessmen will know the distinction between legitimate agent fees and bribery...
Klager said the men showed the agent written plans for using a twelve-man crew to take the Trepang into the Atlantic Ocean, where they would make a rendezvous with an unidentified buyer