Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sell planes, tanks, and guns to any government that feels--or imagines that it feels--the hot breath of Soviet pursuit, it runs the risk of being seen as a warmongering imperialist. With the production of a fighter plane strictly for export, we step blatantly into the role of "agent of destruction," not "defender of the free world...
Meltzer told some of the businessmen that he was an undercover FBI agent. Those who got in touch with the FBI about him discovered that he did indeed have a connection, if only because Meltzer immediately phoned them back. Several told the New York Times that the knowledge increased their confidence in Meltzer, but some did get suspicious. Meltzer kept summoning them to distant locations-New York City, London, the Cayman Islands-to pick up their money, but produced excuses for not handing it over and for not letting borrowers meet the sheik...
...making the switch from agent to tattletale author, Snepp made a mistake: he ignored the written pledge that CIA employees make never to publish "any information" about the organization without submitting it for prior review. Last week, in a toughly worded ruling, the Supreme Court slammed Snepp hard for his transgression. By a 6-3 vote, the court ruled that the CIA secrecy pledge is very much a legally enforceable contract. In their terse nine-page opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger and the other five men in the majority noted that Snepp had "deliberately" violated his "obligation" to his former...
...demanded to see his manuscript, Snepp refused. He maintained that he was obliged to submit only classified or nonpublic information. And his book, he insisted, contained none-a fact conceded even by the CIA. The agency, which has been troubled by the spy-and-tell books of another former agent, Philip Agee, decided to take Snepp to court to show that the secrecy pledge was not to be trifled with...
Superspy Luis winds up working as a double-agent for the Brits, brilliantly predicting from Portugal an Allied invasion of Greece, when the Big One was of course scheduled for North Africa. Despite the deception, the Abwehr concludes that the Cabrillo cabal had spotted every diversionary clue and was blameless...