Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With top level approval and ample funds now available, the FBI scam grew ever more elaborate. A swarthy agent, still unidentified, was picked to play the fictitious sheik, Kambir Abdul Rahman. Variously portrayed as being from Oman, Lebanon or the United Arab Emirates, the impostor set up temporary residence in a 62-ft. yacht that docked in several posh Florida marinas. As the flag vessel of the FBI'S secret fleet, the cruiser, seized by customs officials from marijuana smugglers, was first named the Left Hand and later the Corsair. "It gleamed with the predictable varnished parquet decks, teak...
...Real Estate is of course a corporate entity within Harvard University, and so Harvard Real Estate's policy of increasing their returns on their properties in Cambridge must be seen as Harvard University's policy. Harvard Real Estate tried to shift the blame for mistakes downstairs, to their managing agent, Hunneman. We recommend that the actual decision-makers, Harvard Real Estate and Harvard University, be held accountable for their policies and actions. Michael H. Turk Lorraine L. Iritano Leo Manis Howard Ramseur Ellinor Pedersen Herbert E. Nipson Denis P. Chabaneix Doreen M. Scott
...unscrupulous reporters-that began to explain the subversive and destructive forces at work in his country. The thesis of the "manuscript" The Politician, now in its ninth printing with more than 285,000 copies in print, is startling: "Dwight D. Eisenhower was, through his whole career, a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy," and was guilty of treason...
...athletes at Squaw Valley would probably have had difficulty making the Olympics today. Training, techniques and equipment are more sophisticated, and times are dramatically faster for speed events. Sadly, though, many 1980 Olympians may wind up remembering the sacrifice more than the joy. Says Pitou, now a travel agent: "The kids aren't having fun any more. They're training to death." The real winners may not be the ones who leave Lake Placid with gold but the ones who take away golden memories. Speed Skater Bill Disney won only a silver at Squaw Valley, but no matter...
...cigar factory, the representative of a ficititious Jewish organization, an assembly-line worker, a right-wing informer pretending to be a socialist party member, and an adviser to the President of a West German political party. At 38, Walraff has been a journalist and self-made undercover agent for 14 years, emerging for a press conference or to write a newspaper article, remaining public just long enough to make sure that an official investigation will get underway, then disappearing again to assume another disguise and another role. If there is a limit to his ability, it is that...