Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...January 1950, Alger and Priscilla Hiss sat in a Manhattan courtroom, he pressing his lips in a tight smile, she fingering her handbag. A federal jury was ready to pass judgment on whether he had lied in denying that he had given secret State Department documents to a Soviet agent in 1938. Intoned the forewoman: "We find the defendant guilty on the first count and guilty on the second." Showing almost no emotion, Hiss and his wife slowly walked out of the room, surrounded by a pack of lawyers and spectators...
...Hiss a Soviet agent? Noel Field, a confessed Soviet agent in the State Department, and his wife Herta fled to Czechoslovakia in 1948 and were questioned by both Czechoslovak and Hungarian security officials. Czech Historian Karel Kaplan, who read the interrogation records 20 years later, told Weinstein that the Fields named Hiss as a Communist underground agent during the 1930s. Indeed, writes Weinstein, "Herta Field, when seized in Prague, initially believed that American intelligence agents had come to kidnap her and bring her back to give evidence against Hiss...
Chambers testified that he gave Hiss and three other agents Bokhara rugs in January 1937 as gestures of appreciation for their undercover work. Hiss admitted receiving a red oriental rug from Chambers, but said it was in 1935 and was partial payment for a debt. Two other recipients told the FBI that they had received their rugs in early 1931. Moreover, a rug expert hired by the defense established from a description on a sales slip that Hiss's rug was apparently one of four that had been bought by a Communist agent for Chambers in December...
...better come out, we know who you are!" bellowed the FBI agent standing outside the door to a $130-a-day suite at the smart Innisbrook resort complex at Tarpon Springs, Fla. So ended a two-week hunt for the elusive Alan Abrams, the bail-jumping Boston commodity-options con man (TIME, Jan. 30) who, it is charged, under the alias "James Carr" swindled U.S. investors out of as much as $75 million...
...chief, the sarpanch. Nor did anybody seem very surprised that the gifts to the Indian government-loans for starting a chicken farm and for buying a machine to turn manure into methane gas-had been bestowed upon people who were able to make use of them, the local police agent and the man with the biggest cattle herd...