Word: attachments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another councillor declared that he didn't "attach too much importance to sponsorship" of the group and said that he thought it could continue successfully as a private organization. Praising Vorenberg's own work, this councillor said that the most important thing was "to have somebody who has the talent and is willing to devote as much time as Vorenberg...
...military attaché serves one basic purpose: legalized spying. Cloaked, up to a point, by his diplomatic immunity, he goes to cocktail parties, parades and factories, gets local generals plastered (unless they get him plastered first), and ranges through the countryside with notebook, camera and a blank expression...
...reasons unknown, the Russians had permitted four Western military attachés (three American, one British) to ride the Trans-Siberian Railway all the way from Moscow to Khabarovsk, headquarters of the Soviet Far East military command. It was the first time in two years that any foreigners had been allowed on the 2,300-mile stretch from Irkutsk to Khabarovsk, which runs straight through what is presumed to be Russia's new belt of atomic plants and missile sites. Presumably, by taking careful note of such clues as power lines, spur tracks and freight-car types, a trained...
...When the attachés reached Khabarovsk, Russian security police broke into their hotel rooms, held them prisoner for six hours, finally allowed them to proceed on their way to Tokyo-after confiscating what Moscow claimed were more than 900 photographs and 26 notebooks packed with "intelligence data on railway stations, bridges, tunnels, radar installations, airfields, locations of military detachments and other objectives of defense significance...
...most fervent plea for a "moral quest" came from Princeton's Robert F. Cohen. He told bright Tiger cubs that if they expected "only to accumulate knowledge, I would advise you to begin negotiations with another institution where you can attach yourself to a pipeline of inanimate learning and become full, like a storage tank, sealed by a diploma and otherwise useless...