Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board the ship at all." By then, U.S. patience was beginning to wear thin. At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Shultz called on Cairo to "hold these people and prosecute them." Privately, U.S. officials could hardly restrain themselves. Said an intelligence analyst: "They just lied to us, from top to bottom. They did everything they could in order to mislead us about the location and fate of the terrorists." But thanks to effective intelligence in Egypt, the White House knew by Thursday morning that the hijackers still had not left the country...
Word of the Hunts' action came as a welcome surprise to Wall Street. Said Paul Sarnoff, an analyst at Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "I didn't think they would ever sell all that silver." Investors were happy to see that the Hunts have largely left the silver scene. The price of the commodity jumped more than 5% after the sell-off became known and closed the week at $6.32 an ounce...
Howard, a former project-development officer for the Agency for International Development, joined the CIA in 1981. Agency officials refuse to discuss his precise duties, but Howard came so close to accepting a Moscow assignment in 1983 that he was given a State Department "cover" as a budget analyst. Howard's training for Moscow included details on U.S. clandestine operations in the Soviet Union...
After Howard failed a routine lie detector test, the posting was canceled, and he was fired by the agency. Howard returned to his native New Mexico and became a bona fide economic analyst for the state legislative finance committee. After Yurchenko began identifying KGB "assets" in the U.S. during a lengthy debriefing, the FBI started a thorough background check on Howard, including interviews with co-workers and neighbors. Howard was last seen at his office on Sept. 21, a Saturday. The next day his supervisor found a letter announcing his resignation for "personal reasons." It is assumed that Howard fled...
...contract winners include Boeing ($131 million), TRW ($57 million), Lockheed ($33 million) and Rockwell ($25 million). Scores of other star-struck companies, from giant IBM to tiny General Research of Santa Barbara, Calif., have also pushed onto the SDIO payroll. Says Wolfgang Demisch, an analyst at the First Boston investment firm: "SDI is the future of the defense industry. No competitive high-tech company can afford not to be a part...