Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority-run businesses, but dismayed by a decision that perpetuated a white-dominated electoral system in Mobile, Ala. Free-speech champions got more than they had hoped for in a ruling guaranteeing open criminal trials, but were stunned earlier by the court's support for sanctions against CIA Agent Turned Author Frank Snepp...
...future of Mission Innoculation depends on the proper diagnosis of American illnesses--and the CIA's strength at smuggling bacteria into Tehran. "We're working on a new strain of dysentery," agent Frank Snepp reported cheerfully. "It's called Ayatollah's Revenge...
...drama teacher at High School for the Performing Arts tells the freshman class they will need three things to make it: a strong technique, a good agent, and a thick skin. By the time graduation rolls around, the oncenaive wunderkinder have developed the latter. At its center, Fame is really a monument to modern-day egoism. What has the Me Generation wrought at PA? A bunch of conceited, albeit talented, immortality-seekers who think of nothing but themselves...
...figure. Long the reputed godfather of organized crime along the Gulf Coast, Carlos Marcello, 70, is suspected of running an empire whose illegal gambling operations alone reportedly grossed more than $500 million annually in the 1960s. Except for a six-month prison term in 1970 for slugging an FBI agent, Marcello has successfully dodged federal prosecution and deportation for decades. Today the Marcello domain includes hotels and motels, oil holdings, a produce company, and a 6,000-acre tract of land in suburban New Orleans worth an esti mated $60 million...
...according to U.S. intelligence specialists, is far superior to the KGB in "comint" and "elint" (communications and electronic intelligence), the Soviets excel in "humint" (intelligence gathering through human contact). This was spectacularly demonstrated in Bonn last year, when West German counterintelligence finally caught up with a KGB agent functioning as a madam. For three years the operative had run a brothel catering to politicians and diplomats from whom she obtained political and military secrets...