Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stanley Morris, director of the Marshals Service, says that other agencies are relieved to be rid of the loot-keeping burden, which had led to charges of theft and corruption. "We want to come up with a system that assures a high degree of integrity," he says. Notes DEA Agent William Coonce of Los Angeles: "We're glad to hand it over to them...
...Carolina, a drug dealer's former Xanadu called Castle Hayne, complete with swimming pool and 22-horse stables, sits uninhabited. In the DEA'S Los Angeles office, a huge, garish oil painting decorates the squad room. "We don't know where to put the thing," an agent says of the confiscated treasure. "It won't fit in the vault...
...mess evidently began in 1968, when Aldo Bonassoli, a telephone-company electrician in Ventimiglia, Italy, convinced Count Alain de Villegas, a wealthy private investor, that he could develop a technique for discovering oil from the air. A French intelligence agent learned of the project, and the Giscard government decided that it might be useful for detecting submarines. Villegas signed the first of a number of contracts with Elf-Aquitaine, and payments were made into secret Swiss bank accounts...
...Little Drummer Girl, which was shot on the barren hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Based on John le Carré's best-selling novel, the movie stars Diane Keaton, 38, as Charlie, an impressionable English actress who is recruited by Israeli intelligence for a double-agent mission against Palestinian terrorists. Keaton trained with a bazooka and a Soviet-made assault rifle for one of her most dramatic scenes. Says Keaton: "I never did anything like that before. But I loved it." How about a sequel called Annie Hall Goes...
...after The Grapes of Wrath, justifying the Nobel Prize he received in 1962. Benson's admirations exclude only East of Eden; the biographer finds it stilted and overwrought. If Steinbeck did not produce as many great novels as he should have, Benson blames his editor or his agent and, above all, the critics, who kept asking for more Grapes...