Word: agent
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Among those questioned, according to Kalugin, were an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency, a U.S. Navy officer and a U.S. Air Force officer. He also told the Daily News that two of the POWs later returned to the U.S. -- an astounding claim, if true, because the only former POW known to have been repatriated after 1973 was Marine PFC Robert Garwood, who disappeared near Danang in 1965 and resurfaced 14 years later, claiming he had been a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. Garwood was court-martialed for collaborating with the enemy...
...fired hundreds of employees, coldly informing them by mail, contacted the FBI for advice after the chairman received an anonymous threat of mass murder. FBI psychological experts, who concluded that the sender was a middle manager due for layoff, do not believe he will carry out his threat. But agent John Douglas, the agency's top behavioral-science expert, advises that all such threats must be taken seriously. Workplace shootings are increasing. One reason: many people no longer have the comfort of family and community ties that once cushioned the blow of job loss...
...heroically ironic. The novel is a detective story in which the private eye is desperate to forget, not learn, life's mysteries; or maybe sci-fi set in the lunar wastes of an addict's mind; or else it's a spy story, in which the secret agent is bug powder...
...Europa, Europa argues that there are times when living any way at all can serve the same purpose. It is based on the true World War II adventures of an adolescent Jew named Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider). His parents send him away from home, hoping that as a free agent living by his wits, he can escape Nazi persecution. Captured first by Russians, then by a company of German soldiers, he becomes an accidental battlefield hero. His reward is a scholarship to an elite Hitler Youth school, where every shower is a threat: circumcision was a death warrant in Hitler...
...Lasch's suspicions were further aroused when the Kennedys gave police investigators what seemed to be a runaround. William Barry, a former FBI agent who was staying at the compound, incorrectly told detectives that Senator Edward Kennedy had left for Washington when in fact he was having lunch at the Palm Beach estate. For two weeks the family rebuffed police attempts to survey the grounds where the alleged assault took place. That was sufficient time for the wind and sea to obliterate any evidence that might have corroborated the woman's story. A grand jury may decide this week whether...