Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Revolutionary Committee had a problem: the two men were the first FBI agents ever to penetrate the dark and harsh world of the Weather Underground. Ralph, actually Agent Richard J. Gianotti, and Dick, Agent William D. Reagan, lost their cover in November when federal judges needed their testimony to issue warrants for the arrest of Van Lydegraf and four Weather people, the biggest roundup of the group ever made. The Government contends that the five aimed to bomb the office of California State Senator John V. Briggs, a conservative Republican who hopes to run for Governor on a strong stand...
...Satch is the head coach as of right now," Howie McHugh, press agent for the Celtics said yesterday. "Heinsohn got canned this morning at 10:30. He had worn out his welcome...
...Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann, that haul was the most damaging espionage case since World War II. In terms of military intelligence, he said, it surpassed even the work of Günter Guillaume, former Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal aide, whose arrest three years ago as an East German agent moved Brandt to resign. The key figure in the trio appeared to be a stunning brunette, Renate Lutze, 37, who from 1972 until her arrest was chief secretary to the head of the Defense Ministry's personnel and welfare section; for reasons not yet fully explained, that job gave...
...biggest stars. He was forever feuding with Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, whom he once called "the village idiot"; the most notable battle involved Finley's attempt to sell Vida Blue, Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers for $3.5 million in cash before they departed in the free-agent market. Kuhn voided the deal, claiming it was not "in the best interests of baseball." Despite all that, Finley was a topflight baseball man, whose shrewd trades and sharp eye for nascent superstars gave Oakland five straight divisional championships, three American League pennants and three World Series championships...
This is terribly embarrassing to Soviet intelligence. Charles Bronson is the secret agent dispatched to clean up the mess before it spreads too far; Lee Remick plays the double agent who is supposed to assist him but whose real function is to fall in love with him while they try to head off Pleasence before he sets all the old agents' bells aringing. There are entertaining possibilities in this improbable story. At least it avoids being paranoid, not only about the KGB but also, more remarkably, about the CIA, a more recently fashionable whipping boy. But Director Siegel...