Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talent for installing electronic bugs during court-approved break-ins made Special Agent H. Edward Tickel the FBI'S top surreptitious entry expert. The 14-year veteran planted eavesdropping devices in the bureau's most famous cases, including the "Brilab" sting operation that led to the 1981 conspiracy conviction of Carlos Marcello, the reputed king of organized crime in New Orleans. But last week Tickel, 42, was fired by the FBI after being indicted by federal grand juries in Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va., for a variety of crimes that took place between 1977 and 1980. Tickel pleaded...
...more concrete level, the Federal government must begin authoritative testing of Agent Orange, a lethal defoliant which was aerially sprayed on the Vietnamese jungle during the war. The deadly toxin dioxin, the active ingredient of Agent Orange, has been linked to cancer in Vietnam vets and birth defects among their children. In addition, some have argued that Agent Orange has been responsible for Delayed Stress Syndrome, a mental disturbance many vets have faced since the war. Efforts must be made along federal and state level's to see whether Agent Orange is indeed as dangerous as feared...
Former CIA agent is convicted...
...lawyers called the tall, gaunt ex-CIA agent "the spy who was left out in the cold." His multimillion-dollar gunrunning operation to Libyan terrorists, they argued, was nothing more than a clever cover for his real mission: ferreting out Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi's secrets for his former employer, the Central Intelligence Agency. But the Government prosecutor in federal district court in Alexandria, Va., depicted Edwin Wilson, 54, not as an undercover agent but as a skilled, avaricious wheeler-dealer, exploiting contacts and expertise built up after years of "Company" service. After deliberating only 4½ hours...
...that he masterminded an international web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities between 1976 and 1979. Wan and slimmer after five months in federal custody, Wilson did not take the stand in his own defense, and maintained a dour demeanor during the 2½-day trial. A CIA agent from 1954 to 1970 who then worked in a Navy intelligence group before retiring in 1976, Wilson seemed to sense that his luck had run out. For nearly two years after his first indictment in 1980, the millionaire ex-spook escaped arrest, living in a seaside villa in Tripoli, Libya...