Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revamped West 57th will feature dramatized "re-creations" of events, a dubious enterprise that blurs the line between news and entertainment. (Even ABC's World News Tonight tried the technique two weeks ago, with mock-documentary footage ostensibly showing suspected spy Felix Bloch handing a briefcase to a Soviet agent. Anchor Peter Jennings last week apologized on the air that the footage had not been clearly labeled as a simulation...
...admitted that an agent "discarded" many internal documents concerning an IRS raid in 1986 that Saranow initiated against Guess's nemesis, Jordache Enterprises. The Justice Department is investigating the incident...
...evidence gathered by methods that might not even be admissible at a trial. Under U.S. law, direct evidence is required of the transfer to foreigners of damaging secret information. Sources claim that Bloch, 54, a 30-year State Department veteran, was photographed passing a briefcase to a known Soviet agent in Paris. Reportedly, the same agent later tipped Bloch off to the investigation: "A bad virus is going around, and we believe you are now infected...
...well as data on U.S. policy options and negotiating positions. Once in Washington, he was authorized, for example, to read the National Intelligence Daily, a compilation of intelligence reports. During a trip to Vienna earlier this year, he was allegedly videotaped handing a briefcase to a suspected Soviet agent on a city street. Bloch has been under 24-hour FBI surveillance for a number of weeks. Neighbors say that in early July they began to see men in parked cars staking out the fashionable Washington apartment building where Bloch lives with his wife and daughter...
...show off his clout last year, Spence took two clients and a pair of male prostitutes on a midnight July 4 tour of the White House.That same weekend, Spence gave Secret Service agent Ronald deGueldre, who arranged the tour, his $8,000 Rolex; deGueldre gave Spence his $22 Casio -- all out of friendship, says deGueldre. The agent's house in Virginia was searched last week for pieces of Truman china, a set of presidential cuff links and a tiepin that disappeared mysteriously after the tour. Officials will not say if anything was found...