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American companies now spend $7.1 billion on security annually at home and abroad (up from $3.2 billion five years ago). Former FBI Agent Charles Bates, now an executive at a San Francisco security agency, reckons that 80% of large U.S. firms have either started executive protection programs or are considering doing so. Scores of new firms specializing in executive safety have opened shop, and the big, old protection agencies are growing. Burns, the nation's second largest such firm (after Pinkerton's), reports that its executive protection business has doubled in the past year, and accounts...
...Youngdahl, a deeply religious son of Swedish immigrants, was appointed to the bench in 1951 after five years as a racket-busting Republican Governor of Minnesota. In 1952 he drew a Government perjury case against Asia Expert Owen Lattimore, whom Senator Joseph R. McCarthy called "the top Soviet espionage agent in the United States." Youngdahl threw out several Government indictments against Lattimore, refused to withdraw from the case when a U.S. Attorney accused him of prejudice. Seethed Youngdahl: "Under my oath to preserve sacred constitutional principles, I can properly do no less than to strike the [Government] affidavit as scandalous...
Such tales about Beatty are legion. He rarely, if ever, is on time for any kind of appointment: Agent Sue Mengers, a friend inured to his late arrivals, says she now "plans buffet entertaining if Warren is coming to one of my parties." Wealth makes him uncomfortable. He would rather hear Mabel Mercer sing in a quiet club than boogie at Regine's; he owns a Cartier watch, but prefers to wear a Timex. An articulate man who refuses to use either Hollywood lingo or the latest L.A. hip-speak, Beatty likes to take long pauses in the middle...
...invasion of Zaïre's Shaba region by Katangese rebels. The Soviets, meanwhile, stepped up a new anti-American harassment campaign; they arrested one Moscow-based Yankee businessman on what seem to be trumped-up charges and angrily publicized bizarre details about the activities of a CIA agent who had been expelled from the U.S.S.R. last summer. Moreover, a commentary in Pravda blasted the President for endangering peace by engineering a "turnabout" in U.S.-Soviet relations and for meddling in Soviet internal affairs by his human rights campaign. At his midweek Washington press conference, Carter had vowed...
There was some truth to Izvestiya's fiction. As some Washington officials tacitly conceded last week, the lady vice consul had indeed been involved in some Moscow capers of a type that are more or less routine in the murky world of espionage. She was a CIA agent operating under diplomatic cover in Moscow. Nabbed by Soviet counterintelligence last July, she was photographed with an array of spy gear and quietly allowed to leave the U.S.S.R. under diplomatic immunity. She was reassigned to Washington. Hours after the appearance of the Izvestiya story, the State Department instructed...