Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passengers and planes in the last three was unresolved at week's end. The second seizure provided a clue to the common motivation, after a would-be member of the hijack gang was arrested at Key West and explained how they felt. "They were very despondent," said FBI Agent Bill Hayes, "mostly because they missed their families...
...sure, neither of the threats had vanished. With investigations into the Billy affair under way in the Senate and the Justice Department, there was no quick way for the President to end the controversy over his brother's dealings as an agent for Libya. Yet the besieged President confidently handled barbed questions from reporters. He was alternately humane ("Billy is a colorful personality. I love him and he loves me"), defiant ("I don't have authority to order Billy to do something. It is not illegal for him to make a trip to Libya") and presidential...
When Yuri Krotkov defected to the West in 1963, carrying a microfilmed manuscript detailing his experiences as a Soviet secret police agent, he might have chosen a new career as a writer of thrillers. Certainly he had enough material in hand. One of his first assignments for the KGB involved informing on boyhood friends. Later he specialized in the sexual entrapment of foreigners. His job was to introduce ambassadors and attaches to beautiful Soviet women, known as "swallows" in secret police parlance. Once a diplomat was caught nesting with a swallow, there followed a blackmail attempt and-the KGB hoped...
...produced The Nobel Prize, a spy story of a different kind, about Boris Pasternak. According to the dust jacket, which does not mention Krotkov's secret police background, the author enjoyed "a close personal friendship with the Pasternak family." Though such a friendship between a KGB agent and Russia's great 20th century poet seems unlikely, Krotkov was indeed a frequent visitor to the home of Pasternak after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...players like Howard Slusher, Mike Trope and Jerry Argovitz, who have intervened to assume leading roles in the never-ending tale, "Agent for the Offense." Nor can the national political parties, who orchestrate possibly the most staged and laughable of all sporting events--the political conventions (which wind up resembling a circus more than a horse race...