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...Being fired from Harvard gave him a notoriety which could not be purchased from a PR agent," said Anthony G. Greenwald, professor of psychology at University of Washington at Seattle...
Maybe it was his Runyonesque swagger, or the 6-ft. 6-in., 350-lb. former football linebacker who served as his bodyguard, or his expert craft, which included hiding a key in a potted plant. Whatever the case, Gary Hipple, a U.S. Customs agent based in San Francisco, convinced a group of Chinese arms dealers that he was a Mafia big shot who was in the market to buy guns for drug rings and street gangs. By the time the undercover deal was over, Hipple and his partner, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent who also posed...
...operation began in 1994, when an informant told Hipple that a Taiwanese businessman named Hammond Ku was looking for ways to circumvent Customs. Hipple arranged a meeting and to impress Ku took along fellow agent and former Green Bay Packer Byron Braggs. Ku allegedly set up a test: he had a suitcase of weapons parts flown from China to the San Francisco airport. Hipple duly carried the case past Customs and stashed it in a locker, telling Ku he would find the key in a nearby potted plant...
...NASA's space flight center, defense contractors around the nation and the South Korean atomic energy center. Senator Sam Nunn, ranking Democrat on the committee, said that Internet crime presents a whole new challenge for ensuring national security. "Is the bad actor a 16-year old, a foreign agent, an anarchist or a combination thereof?" he asked. "How do you ascertain the nature of a threat if you don't know the motive of your adversary?" Adding fuel to the threat of cyberspace infiltration is a report that some 120 governments have or are developing computer attack capabilities. Chris McKenna
RETIRING. EARVIN ("MAGIC") JOHNSON, 36, Lakers basketball star; for the third time as a player, after a disappointing and controversial comeback season; in Los Angeles. His agent said the celebrated HIV-positive player's decision was not health related...