Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boyce, the road to Lompoc began in 1975 when, with the aid of his father, a former FBI agent, he was hired by TRW, a conglomerate that, among other things, makes surveillance satellites for the CIA. A communications clerk, Boyce soon got "top secret" and "crypto" clearances that allowed him to handle highly classified documents. The college dropout found himself assigned to a sensitive job: transmitting coded spy information from the TRW installation in Redondo Beach, Calif., to CIA headquarters in Langley...
...said Boyce, he worked out a plot with Andrew Daulton Lee, 27, a teen-age chum from the affluent Southern California town of Palos Verdes who had been convicted of drug dealing and was then on the run. The two schemed to supply top secret material to an agent in the Soviet Union's Mexico City embassy...
...executive commission statement charged the invasion created "new dangers for world peace." Even the British Communists, who normally back Moscow's foreign policy down the line, openly questioned the Soviet rationale for invading Afghanistan. The assertion that Afghanistan's late President Hafizullah Amin had been an American agent, proclaimed the Morning Star, was simply "not credible...
...state legislators have practical as well as humanitarian motives; they believe that juries will be less reluctant to view the death penalty as "cruel and unusual punishment" if it is carried out by injection. But the lethal substance, probably a fast-acting barbiturate mixed with a paralyzing chemical agent, would have to be administered at least indirectly by a physician. And that, charge a Boston doctor and a lawyer, would constitute a cruel and unusual breach of medical ethics...
Chronologically, Jerry (Julia) makes a slightly tipsy pass at Emma (Danner), the wife of his best friend Robert (Scheider) at a party at Robert's house. In one of those chemically combustible instants, their eyes hold. Their hands and hearts follow. Jerry is a literary agent, Robert is a publisher, Emma runs an art gallery, London sophisticates all. Jerry and Emma rent and decorate a suburban flat for illicit afternoons, which begin rosily but develop nagging thorns...