Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Born Aline Griffith in Pearl River, N.Y., the former Manhattan model joined the Office of Strategic Services and was posted to Madrid in 1944, where she decoded messages at the American Oil Mission. The OSS called her Tiger. Her orders: to flush out Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's special agent in the Spanish capital. The dark, lissome beauty moved easily in international society. Her front line was frequently a receiving line or a table at Horcher's, a restaurant transplanted from Berlin...
...billed another of his firms (Lake Resources) $100,357 for the salaries of private American pilots used in air-dropping weapons to the contras. This, said Rudman, meant that the pilots should have been getting $450 a day. In fact, according to Rudman and a witness, former CIA Agent Felix Rodriguez, the pilots were paid at most $150 a day, suggesting that East, Inc., earned about $35,000 on this transaction alone. Secord and his partners, declared Rudman, "were not only arms dealers, they were flesh peddlers...
Tambs worked through a CIA agent (called Tomas Castillo but identified as Joe Fernandez) in his embassy to get Costa Rica to approve construction of a secret airstrip near the Nicaraguan border and persuade contras to move deeply into Nicaragua. The Ambassador insisted that Abrams "knew just as much as I did" about the southern-front activities. Abrams has denied to congressional committees that he knew of any such details. Fernandez, who was placed on administrative leave by the CIA late last year because of his contra involvement, told the committee in closed testimony that his superiors, including Fiers, knew...
...Robert Owen, at the time a private citizen volunteering his services to North, made a trip to Costa Rica in 1985 to select a site for an airfield from which arms could be flown to the contras. He testified that he was met and shown around by a CIA agent who helped him choose the location. The CIA was barred at the time from such activities...
This year's few free-agent deals grew out of necessity. The Cubs needed offense, so they picked up Andre Dawson. The Phillies needed a catcher, so they picked up Lance Parrish...