Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting, Verba argued to the roughly 100 Faculty members in attendance that current rules allow "projects that one might think were dubious." He singled out a recently approved independent project which the student's official described as "study for the insurance agent's licensing exam...
...first homicide in six months for Cheyenne, Wyo., and one that area residents will long remember. When Richard C. Jahnke, 38, an IRS senior agent, stepped out of his blue Volkswagen to open the garage door of his $125,000 red brick home on Cowpoke Road one evening last month, he walked into an ambush of shotgun slugs. He died instantly, and the attacker swiftly fled with an accomplice through a bedroom window. But when, within twelve hours, police arrested the two alleged murderers, the reaction was shock more than relief. Charged with the crime were Jahnke's children...
According to some Cheyenne residents, trouble had been brewing in the Jahnke household long before the $38,500-a-year IRS agent was transferred from Phoenix in August 1980. The family virtually isolated itself, and the children were expected to spend most of their free time at home. The parents forbade dating for Deborah, and Maria Jahnke insisted on accompanying her teen-age daughter on outings. Jahnke, a former career Army sergeant, a gun buff and survivalist who stored a large emergency cache of dried foodstuffs in the home, often patrolled his house fondling one of his guns. Lamented...
...graying, impeccably attired Hambleton was apparently recruited by the KGB during the late 1940s in Ottawa, then trained in espionage methods and cultivated as a Soviet agent while he studied in France and Britain. For reasons that remain unclear, Hambleton resigned from NATO in 1961. He returned to study in London and later joined Quebec's Laval University in 1964 to teach economics...
...Hambleton mistakenly to believe he was immune from prosecution when he nonchalantly flew to England for a visit. But in his defense last week, Hambleton unveiled yet another twist to his story. Espionage charges against him were unwarranted, his lawyer claimed, because he had in fact been a double agent working for NATO all along...