Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge who presided over the Jack Ruby trial, on the director of Central Intelligence and on the Warren Commission itself. The bureau engaged a friendly Republican Congressman and commission member to keep it posted on the closed-door sessions. His name-Gerald Ford. The FBI even lent Ford an agent's lockable briefcase so he could take secret documents on a skiing vacation...
...that Cubans had engineered Kennedy's murder in retaliation. The files reveal that this possibility had occurred to Hoover and caused him to anguish in private over his public declarations that Oswald had acted alone. But the Director seemed reassured when two letters linking Oswald to a Cuban agent turned out to have been hoaxes. Both letters - one addressed to Oswald but mailed after the assassination, the other sent to the Attorney General - indicated that a Pedro or Peter Charles of Havana had paid Oswald $7,000 to carry out an unidentified mission that involved "accurate shooting...
Seventy years ago, in The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad described an act of anarchist terrorism as "a blood-stained inanity of so fatuous a kind that it was impossible to fathom its origin by any reasonable or even unreasonable process of thought." Today West Germans, in ordeals of introspection and defensive truculence, are trying to understand the almost autistic fury of their own terrorists. Why should their country-its political system stable and democratic, its wealth distributed reasonably well, its society open and obsessively moderate -have produced the murderous young of the Baader-Meinhof gang and the Red Army Faction...
...reels of tape from court-ordered wiretaps and bugs, DEA investigators conceded in court that they had Barnes' voice on only one tape-and that did not involve a conversation about drugs. The defense denied the voice was Barnes' and put on the stand an undercover agent who admitted he now was not certain it was actually Nicky talking. Nor did any of the other tapes link Barnes to narcotics. Though the Government contended that on one reel a man said he had to "pick up a kilo out of Nicky's car," the sound was blurred...
...male oppressors. Pietropinto's response: a quickie sex survey on men, intended both to rebut Kite's book on women and preempt her sequel on men, due next spring. Like Hite, Pietropinto finds what he was looking for. Beyond the Male Myth, co-authored with his agent Jacqueline Simenauer, reports-apparently without tongue in cheek-that men are sensitive creatures, intensely concerned with female orgasms, less interested in sexual pleasure than in love and companionship. Says he: "I think this explodes the picture of men as satyrs who have no feelings and don't care about women...