Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airman Bush said the adventure began when a fellow passenger on a Bangkok-Hong Kong commercial airline flight confided to him: "I've been contacted to find a pilot to fly someone out of China." The passenger, said Bush, turned out to be a British travel agent, based in Bangkok, by the name of Mike Sullivan. Pilot Bush and his new friend continued in time-tested fashion: they met a "beautiful Chinese girl" in a Hong Kong restaurant, and she begged them to undertake an "errand of mercy" to save the boy, who was being held as a hostage...
...thought that was very amusing to me, because, well, I have smelled rotten eggs, sir, and that is what a stink bomb smells like," she burbled. "Mr. Hubshman [Robert Hubshman, a Teamster slugger] and Mr. Brady [Philip Brady, business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Scranton] had discussed this with me, and I can't call them 'mister'-I am so used to calling them Bob and Billy and so on. Bob, he said to me, 'Wait until they try soap and water to clean that up.' Because, he said, 'Only...
Guest List. Among those arrested and convicted last October for their part in Scranton's classic example of union violence, after a campaign touched off by the city's newspapers, were Carpenters' Business Agent Bartell, Electrical Workers' Business Agent Brady, Laborers' Business Agent Anthony Bonacuse, and Teamsters' Secretary-Treasurer John Durkin, who is also a vice president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. Yet all still hold their union jobs-a fact that places a real burden of proof on the national A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council in its war against labor racketeering...
...student at Columbia University. Why, demanded the Montreal Gazette's Arthur Blakely. "did the government wait for six years to deal openly and candidly-and even then not fully-with the security questions raised in Washington in 1951?" As early as February 1940, Blakely reported, "an undercover agent relayed to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police the information that the new Canadian Foreign Service officer [Norman] was a secret member of the Communist Party...
Secret Report. Goaded to an answer, Pearson fired off a telegram to the Gazette: "It is true that a report by an R.C.M.P. secret agent mentions Norman as a member of the Canadian Communist Party in 1940, and it is no doubt this report, which was forwarded by the R.C.M.P. in October 1950 to appropriate agencies, to which Blakely and [Senate Committee Counsel Robert] Morris refer...