Word: agent
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...familiar with the Navy's Indian Ocean activities thanks to two tours of duty at the highly secret base on the remote island of Diego Garcia. The FBI claimed that Whitworth had operated "at the heart of Navy communications." Retired Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll called him "a dream agent" for the Soviets...
Hence, in the Soviet Union, the mentality of the spy is part and parcel of the mentality of the commissar and, beyond that, of the citizen. The relationship between an agent and his source, between a secret policeman and his informer, is not only an honorable estate but an essential...
...diction. His hapless narrator enjoys perfect security by disguising himself as a wino ("That there is no effective form of defense against a derelict is an irreducible truth of city life"). Even the deposed Prince of Saint Sebastian hustles a string of personal appearances, with the Firm as his agent. But these passages make up a mere fraction of the book. As for the rest, one can only agree with a neighborhood hooker who unburdens herself to Wren after he escapes a bomb planted in his apartment by the Liberation Front. "I don't know, Rus," she says, "sometimes...
DIED. Harold Hecht, 77, independent film producer who followed a string of Technicolor swashbucklers in the mid-1950s with the low-budget, Oscar-winning Marty; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. Hecht was a struggling agent when he teamed up with Actor Burt Lancaster; during the next 15 years, the pair made such notable films as Separate Tables and Birdman of Alcatraz...
...changing his name to Abdul Automobile. But after three years of only personal prosperity, he felt somberly incomplete. "I was second or third in minutes played, averaging 18 or 19 points a game. Statistically everything was right. But I wanted to be a winner. I went free agent and, though New York offered the most money, I guess I needed to be a Celtic." Boston had won only 29 of 82 games that year, but Bird was on the way. Since then, through six seasons of diminishing playing time, Carr has never known anything but fulfillment...