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Even Iran's fanatical leaders denounced the Soviet invasion. During an audience with the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Soviet Ambassador to Iran Vladimir Vinogradov tried to explain that his country had moved in Afghanistan against CIA and Zionist agents???two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the envoy that "Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes and was heading for the same catastrophe that befell the ex-dictator. He said that the Soviets would come...
...reasons never fully explained we are asked to believe that the U.S. Government is storing deadly bacteria, useful in germ warfare, at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. For reasons never fully explained, a team of agents???their allegiance never identified?breaks in to rip the stuff off. Two are stopped, but one gets away and, infected with the plague, boards an international express train bound for Sweden. For reasons n.f.e., Burt Lancaster, the American intelligence agent in charge of arresting both crook and disease, orders the cars sealed (to prevent an epidemic), then diverts the express to Poland...
...intention of submitting himself to senatorial questioning, a White House counterstrategy seemed to be emerging. It was to blame Dean and Mitchell for the Watergate wiretapping and its concealment. Ehrlichman and Haldeman will likely take the blame for shielding the clandestine activities of the White House team of agents???"the plumbers"?but plead that these were separate from Watergate and necessary in the interests of national security...
Minutes later the hidden agents???there were 40 in all?got the word over their short-wave radios: "Suspects are proceeding down Spruce Street, headed for Gold." In the third-floor observation post, one agent cracked to TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, "The Chinese are very punctual." So they were?right on time for the most important narcotics bust this summer...
...which has received little attention in the past three or four years, is as intense?and dirty?as ever, despite the rise of a new type of operative. Since World War II, espionage has undergone a metamorphosis. For a time, its stars were the famed "illegal" or "deep cover" agents???the Colonel Abels, the Gorden Lonsdales, the Kim Philbys. Says British Sovietologist Robert Conquest: "These men compare with the massive embassy operations rather as a skilled armored thrust compares with human-wave tactics in war." Moreover, the growing phalanxes of routine operatives are supported by spy-in-the-sky satellites...