Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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City Editor Al Reck of the Oakland Tribune (circ. 182,876), who likes nothing better than to beat the San Francisco dai lies across the bay, thought he must be having a pipe dream. State Narcotics Agent Fred Braumoeller had walked into the city room and promised him a beat on a hot story in return for the services of a Tribune photographer...
...Agent Braumoeller explained that agents of his bureau often have trouble proving cases against dope peddlers because it is simply the word of the agents against the word of the seller. He wanted the Narcotics Bureau to hire a photographer to snap pictures of meetings between agents and peddlers to use as evidence. Would Reck assign a photographer to make a test? Gladly, City Editor Reck called in Keith Dennison, 54, his veteran chief photographer...
Three weeks ago, Dennison stationed himself in a third-floor window overlooking the busy Oakland intersection, 14th and Jefferson, two blocks from city hall. Across the street, "Eddie," an undercover agent who had already made several small buys from a heroin peddler, waited for another meeting. When the peddler approached him, Dennison snapped picture after picture of the two together. Several were clear enough to make positive identifications of buyer and seller...
Last week Agent Braumoeller was ready to spring his big trap. A second agent had arranged a meeting with the same peddler at another busy street corner (19th and Harrison), and again Photographer Dennison was behind a window shooting the encounter. The two men-peddler and undercover agent-met in the agent's car, where the agent bought the dope with marked money. Suddenly other agents sprang from hiding and pulled the peddler from the car (see cut). The agent who had made the contact stepped out carrying the dope in a paper bag. The Tribune, owned...
...bacilli proved to have lost the old virulence. And they seemed to have lost the ability to grow and reproduce in healthy tissue. Dr. Middlebrook is pretty sure that isoniazid "will not solve all the problems of tuberculosis." But he is ready to call it "the most remarkable chemotherapeutic agent yet discovered for an infectious disease...