Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has seriously threatened the political stability of certain Third World countries and is a major cause of the world's move towards nuclear war, a former CIA agent said last night...
...JUSMAGG), which administers American military aid programs. Established after World War II, JUSMAGG acquired a reputation among Greeks for working with the CIA to influence domestic politics, though in recent years its activities had been sharply curtailed. Left-wing Athens newspapers said last week that Tsantes was a CIA agent, perhaps even the agency's Athens station chief. The U.S. embassy denied the report...
Urgently he kept struggling to become a novelist, but the sketches he wrote about his flophouse experiences became his first book. He knew that the seamy life depicted in Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) would unnerve and embarrass his parents, so he told his agent that he did not want the book published under his own name: "As a pseudonym, a name I always use when tramping etc. is P.S. Burton, but if you don't think this sounds a probable kind of name, what about Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, H. Lewis Allways. I rather favor...
...spirited party pepper, sometime photographer and current Ottawa TV show host; and Pierre Trudeau, 64, Canada's Prime Minister; after twelve years of marriage (including six years of estrangement), three children; in Toronto. She reportedly decided to end the marriage so she could wed an Ottawa real estate agent...
Along with several complicated, never concretely established stories of Oswald as a CIA agent comes Oswald-the-FBI-agent. It is known that Oswald was in contact with the FBI. His notebook had the name, phone number, and license number for agent James Hosty. The Bureau says that Hosty had the duty of investigating Oswald and his Russian wife Marina to see if they were hard-core Marxists. Just before the assassination, Oswald sent Hosty a threatening note, which Hosty or someone else ordered destroyed. According to the FBI, the note only expressed anger over the harassment of Marina Oswald...