Word: agent
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...ground -- sometimes with comic contortions. In his new book, The FBI (Pocket Books), Ronald Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, tells of an operation against a Washington-based KGB officer who was trying to recruit a Pentagon employee. As the Soviet official slept, FBI agents stole his car to plant a bug in it. To avoid suspicion, they put an identical car in the official's parking space overnight. They also made sure that the replacement odometer's mileage read exactly the same as that of the real car. Meanwhile, the KGB car's odometer was temporarily...
...Illan Gozes, have developed a lotion that may help men who are impotent because of physical problems -- for instance, some men suffering complications from diabetes. Called Stearyl-VIP, the lotion, which would be rubbed onto the penis, is a combination of stearic acid and vasoactive intestinal peptide, a natural agent involved in producing an erection. Israeli officials have yet to approve clinical trials on humans...
Washington -- FBI agents are almost giddy over the appointment of their new director, Louis Freeh, the former agent who will fill the tiny shoes of William Sessions, the fbi chief who was recently sacked. Some agents posted at headquarters -- considered a bottom-of-the-totem-pole assignment -- are actually seeking delays in their promotions so they can watch Freeh in action. Other agents who were scheduled to retire have decided to stick around awhile, even though such a decision means missing out on a one-time-only $25,000 buyout plan being offered this year...
...Lawyer, agent to media and political stars for book and television contracts/ CBS White House correspondent; he's feared as much by the networks as she is by the White House...
Director Petersen notes that a few years ago, Line of Fire screenwriter Jeff Maguire did the unthinkable: he wouldn't let the film be made with Tom Cruise in the lead role because it would mean jettisoning the "backstory" about a Secret Service agent old enough to have served President Kennedy. "I think it's wonderful that that didn't happen," Petersen says. "Clint is not a young guy anymore, but he is a good actor, and it works." In a bedroom scene with a young female agent, the Eastwood character drops the implements of his trade -- guns, cuffs...