Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investigators have yet to determine just what has weakened the dolphins' resistance to the bacteria. Some speculate that offshore garbage and sewage spills have been the breeding ground for an agent that weakens their immune system...
...given investigators last December. Defense Lawyer William Kunstler argued that the Marine guard was guilty of nothing more than falling in love with a Soviet translator at the embassy. Lonetree, said Kunstler, had given the KGB useless documents in a fumbled attempt to be a free-lance double agent. Retorted Prosecuting Attorney Major David Beck: "To become a double agent, you must first become...
...Conversational Desktop is a voice-controlled computer system that acts like an automatic receptionist, personal secretary and travel agent -- screening calls, taking messages, making airline reservations. "Get me two seats to the Bahamas," says Research Scientist Chris Schmandt to his computer. "When do you want to go?" replies the machine...
...secret Army still exists, but it seems quiescent for the moment. Most of Seaspray's aircraft have been parceled out to other units. The ISA is also still around; last year it had an agent under deep cover in Beirut, according to an Oliver North computer message inadvertently printed in the February Tower commission report...
...rare historical documents. Last week the FBI arrested him for possessing a 1904 letter signed by Novelist Henry James that had been missing from the Library of Congress. Five days earlier Mount had been charged with stealing letters written by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. Said Special FBI Agent W. Douglas Gow: "This isn't just one or two documents. It's a piece of history...