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...armed policemen. Traffic along the route will be halted to permit the presidential limousine to travel at speeds discouraging to snipers. The agents also consult with local lawmen about individuals in the area who pose security risks; some of these names appear on the Service's master potential-assassin list. The advance team may ask police plainclothesmen or Secret Servicemen from the nearest field office to place such suspects under surveillance. Hotel employees the President might come in contact with are carefully checked out, as are the kitchens where his food will be prepared. The agents make sure that hospitals...
...Soviet Union keep their leaders' public appearances to a minimum-and at a safe removal from uncontrolled crowds. When leaders do mix with the masses, they are surrounded by obviously armed bodyguards. The carefully screened crowds are usually made up of selected party and government workers. But assassination attempts are not unknown. In January 1969 a Soviet army lieutenant disguised as a policeman opened fire on Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev as he was being driven to the Kremlin. Brezhnev escaped unharmed, and the would-be assassin was declared deranged and confined to a mental ward...
...Franco assassin! Franco assassin!" chanted throngs of demonstrators, marching through the streets of Paris in the French capital's most violent rioting since 1968. In Rome, thousands of protesters swarmed through the downtown area shouting, "Free Spain! Free Spain!" In Brussels, angry mobs fire-bombed the Spanish embassy. In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor Party announced a resolution of "total condemnation." In Amsterdam, the Dutch government declared a day of "national demonstration," and government ministers joined protest marches. From one end of Europe to the other, anti-Spanish demonstrations flared...
Sara Jane Moore played two roles last week. When she fired a shot at President Ford she became a failed assassin. She was already an active, paid informer of the U.S. Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The day before the assassination attempt, she had helped a Treasury agent build a case against the dealer who sold her the gun she fired at Ford. Previously, she had spied on radicals for the FBI and worked for the San Francisco police. All in all, a stunning performance in deviousness that would surely give informers a bad name...
...played it slow, they played it fast, they paused," he complains. "You've seen that film a dozen times now." A number of newsmen are irked that Lynette Fromme's troubles with her .45-cal. automatic pistol received such instructively graphic attention that any future .45-cal. assassin would never make the same mistake. CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid questions his network's decision to report on President Ford's bulletproof vest and thereby provide what he sees as valuable information to an assassin. Says Sevareid: "People do not have a constitutional right to know every detail...