Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Journalist as P.R. Agent...
Over the past year, H former and current security employees have alleged that there was dissemination in the unit. I January, Marshall, with the assistance of former EBI agent James A. Ring, launched an investigation of the unit...
...state on the edge of a fundamentalist revolution, Egyptians sniped back that the Americans were bungling the entire affair and turning an otherwise inconsequential cleric into a hero for Egypt's disaffected youth. Mubarak was quoted in the Egyptian press as saying "the sheik has been a CIA agent since his days in Afghanistan. The visa he got was not issued by mistake. It is because of the services...
...consular office when the sheik's case came up. A CIA spokesman says the agency has found no record of a relationship of any sort with the sheik. Former CIA official Vincent Cannistraro, who once chaired the interagency Afghanistan Working Group, also says that "the sheik was never an agent, he was never an informant," and he had no role in the CIA's Afghanistan operation. By the time the sheik was recruiting for the mujahedin, the Soviets had left. Moreover, he backed an anti-American rebel faction shunned...
...airlines have begun flying in the past year alone. They range from Reno Air, a full-service carrier based in Nevada that regales its passengers with California Chardonnays and fancy food baskets, to Morris Air, a low- budget, no-frills outfit started by former Salt Lake City, Utah, travel agent June Morris, the first female founder of an airline. Other newcomers include Kiwi International, a regional discounter that flies six cozy 727s out of Newark, New Jersey; Private Jet, an Atlanta-based charter service with a fleet of 12 big MD-80s; and Family Airlines of Las Vegas, a start...