Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week's end the FBI appeared near a break on the case after administering lie detector tests to bank employees. (The chief teller and almost all of the 100 other bank workers passed the test with no trouble.) Said an FBI agent cryptically: "The pieces are beginning to fall together. We do have some suspects; we have narrowed it down." One theory was that someone with access to the vaults had walked off with the cash and turned it over to a confederate, who had flown it out of the country. The prospect of an arrest without recovery...
What's a spy to do when he gets fired? Some 200 CIA secret agents who have received pink slips in the first wave of a planned two-year cutback in covert personnel have been hitting the streets in search of jobs. But who really needs experts on secret information gathering, conspiracy and political subversion? "Hell, we are simply unemployable," complains one such agent. "No one will have...
...number of the fired intelligence officers are fluent in difficult languages-Hindustani, Arabic, Japanese, and so forth-but colleges are reluctant to hire CIA veterans as teachers. Some of the agents have hopes of selling their services to industrial-security companies that offer protection for multinational executives and their plants. The CIA is trying to help its cashiered officers, instructing them in how to write a résumé without explaining in detail that a previous job, for example, was to lead airborne missions that used infrared devices to spot the cooking pots of Che Guevara's guerrillas...
...Prosperity Training bank account: $250 a customer, which brings in about $12,000 a course, two or three times a month. In addition, a few well-heeled clients pay Sunshine $5,000 each for private training. There are always a few spoilsports who complain. One real estate agent who took the course called it "a watered-down version of est: undignified, mortifying and insulting to one's intelligence." But some trainees can't get enough Sunshine. Of the students in one recent class, one-third were repeat customers...
Beyond that, Bryant's agent and husband Bob Green says, her take from show business has dropped by 70% since the Dade County election. That is difficult to confirm, as is Bryant's charge that "conventions have been totally inhibited from booking us." Bryant still performs around the country, singing and speaking at conventions, church meetings and conservative get-togethers. Sometimes she seems to be benefiting from the furor. When she was picketed in St. Petersburg last week, lagging ticket sales perked up; she played to a full house of 2,000, and 200 people were turned away...