Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his freshman year, Chung answered an advertisement for cheap plane tickets with a firm in Brookline. The man on the other end of the phone, Richard Aiken, was a travel agent in a bind. Chung bought the tickets and more...
Many embassy staffers remember Violetta Seina, the Soviet receptionist in Spaso House, the Ambassador's residence. She is the Soviet agent alleged to have persuaded Sergeant Clayton Lonetree, 25, to help other agents enter the embassy at night and roam the building's most sensitive communications and CIA areas, where the agents planted numerous bugs. Tall, willowy and slim, with long blond hair and large eyes, Seina stood out at the annual Marine ball. "She was so good-looking," said a former Soviet employee. "She wore a long, elegant black dress and attracted attention." When the Soviet workers were withdrawn...
...mystery only whetted the appetite of the leftist weekly Liberation. The spy ring, the paper reported, was run by the Soviet deputy air attache in Paris, Valery Konorev, who doubled as an agent for Soviet military intelligence. Among other things, Konorev's gang was reportedly seeking technical information about the rocket engine of the Ariane missile, the % launch vehicle used by the 13-member European Space Agency...
...that at the Bride and Leonardo still have some affection for each other. She is the daughter of woman who did not love her husband. To make things more complicated, Leonardo is a member of the Felix family, which has murdered the Groom's father and brother. Heredity, the agent of fate, determines from the very first scene the story's tragic outcome...
...happen to know that the frantic investigations ordered by the Pakistani high command have failed to turn up anything on the background of the enemy agent. Perhaps this was opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's way of proving that she's got all of Pakistan behind her. Or could it be that some Indian militarists hired a dissident on a freelance basis? We'll never really know who put the animal up to it; impervious to General Zia's customary interrogations by torture, the boar is keeping...