Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late last May, Jarvinen and one of his CIA friends were having some drinks together. The travel agent said something which caused the CIA man to send a report to Washington. The report was read there as information that Lattimore had in fact bought tickets in Seattle for a flight to Paris and thence to a point behind the Iron Curtain. CIA, without responsibility for internal U.S. security, passed the report on to the FBI and the State Department. State, a bit sensitive on the subject of Lattimore, asked Treasury to send a confidential watch-and-stop order against Lattimore...
Last Christmas two young Swedes got drunk together. Johan Fritiof Enbom, pale, slim and 33, began bragging to his roommate of his exploits as a secret service agent. Soon, his boasting gave way to remorse. Enbom's roommate drank in the whole startling story, then hurried to the police...
...Grenade in Each Hand. The British put her to work at once. Posing as a British journalist in Budapest, Agent Skarbek commuted by ski and car across the Tatra Mountains into Poland, to organize escape routes for Polish and Allied officers. Once she and her partner, a childhood friend named Andrew Kowerski, were captured by the Gestapo, but Christine, whose poise in the presence of danger soon became legendary, talked them both out of trouble. According to British Intelligence, she was the only woman who went through six years of Allied undercover work and throve on it. Most women gave...
Hairpin Code. He first worked as a spy during World War II, when he slipped word of German transport movements to the Communist Party. Soon, with his brother Martin and others, he was dealing in Swedish military secrets and conspiring directly with agents working out of the Soviet embassy in Stockholm. Through switches in Soviet contact men and changes in his own jobs Enbom kept the secrets flowing to Moscow. There were elaborate cloak & dagger arrangements -code messages that looked like simple shopping lists, a rusty tin can hidden in an isolated spot as a "letterbox," hairpins hung...
...story of animal love" is a precocious, pixyish nine-year-old girl. As the beribboned, towheaded authoress, Jenny Hecht takes smoothly to her father's direction. Also participating in this fancifully frothy lampoon of Hollywood: Alan Reed as a porcine movie mogul, Eddie Albert as a double-talking agent, and Tracey Roberts as his sexy secretary...