Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took almost seven years and three trials, but in Los Angeles last week, , Richard Miller, 54, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, thus becoming the only FBI agent ever convicted of spying...
...this is a thriller that owes more to Peter Sellers than to John le Carre. In 1984, when the bumbling 250-lb. Miller was arrested after having an affair with a Soviet agent and giving her a handbook on U.S. counterintelligence techniques, the FBI was shocked. It shouldn't have been. On a $50,000 salary, Miller was attempting to support a wife, eight children, a Los Angeles bungalow and a San Diego County farm...
...product of a 16-month, $1.4 million investigation by the Phoenix police and the Maricopa County attorney's office, the indictment charged the accused with accepting $370,000 from an undercover agent posing as a Las Vegas "gaming consultant" building support for casino gambling. Police say the sting began as an investigation of an illegal gambling network that had attracted the interest of organized crime. "We didn't know at the time how earth shattering it would be," said Phoenix Police Chief Ruben Ortega, "until the evidence began to grow...
...quickly dubbed Azscam -- was a flamboyant Las Vegan who called himself J. Anthony Vincent. According to the indictment, Vincent assuaged the legislators' fears about hidden cameras and once reportedly stripped in front of a lobbyist to show he wasn't concealing a microphone. In fact, Vincent was an undercover agent named Joseph C. Stedino. Ortega says that 95% of the evidence comes from audio-and videotapes. In one police videotape, state representative Don Kenney, who faces 28 counts, is seen stuffing $55,000 in cash into a gym bag and joking about cameras being in the room...
Ingber, along with Folkman and their associates, sent the corrupted sample to Japan, where chemists grew the fungus in huge 10,000-liter vats in order to extract the potent compound. The Japanese found the active, capillary-suppressing agent to be the rare fungus fumagillin...