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...vibrations back to the eavesdropper's receiver. The spoken words are then reproduced electronically. Such gear has allegedly been used for a U.S. surveillance project called Gamma Guppy that has tried to eavesdrop on conversations conducted by members of the Soviet Politburo in their limousines. Another James Bondian device: a laser bug. The laser shoots a narrow stream of light against a window, which will vibrate from the sounds in the room; the beam grabs an "image" of the vibrations, which is then converted back to sound by a special receiver...
...Secret Agent James Bond, Actor Sean Cannery came to epitomize the icy-cool professional. Now retired from Bondian intrigue, Connery has found his latest role as Raisuli, "the last of the Barbary pirates," a hotter venture. Filmed in the arid deserts of Almeria, Spain, The Wind and the Lion co-stars Candice Bergen as Connery's American kidnap victim, and Brian Keith as President Theodore Roosevelt, whom Connery tries to blackmail. Based loosely on an actual historical incident, the movie required Connery to be costumed in Arab headgear so hot that it kept the actor within wandering distance...
...sometimes strains coincidence and leaves some loose ends dangling. But as a study of a decent man twice victimized by megapolitics, Director Pinoteau's first feature rings with rueful truth. Escape to Nowhere is, in cinematic terms, aptly named. It represents a rare movie journey away from the Bondian glamorization of espionage toward that cold, perpetually drizzling landscape that Novelist John le Carré has mastered. Like him, Pinoteau sacrifices nothing in the way of suspense as he pursues his harried hero to a brilliant climactic confrontation with the enemy in the Swiss Alps. And he gains much...
THESE are only a few of myriad missions that the CIA has performed around the world. The agency is also constantly accused of fantastic James Bondian exploits that more often than not it has nothing to do with. The fact is that no nation can any longer accept Secretary of State Henry Stimson's bland dictum of 1929 that "gentlemen do not read other people's mail." In a nuclear-ringed globe, intelligence is more vital than ever. Nor can a world power automatically limit itself to such a passive role as mere information gathering; trying to influence...
...began as an odd, Bondian episode greeted with amused stupefaction in Washington. Now the Watergate affair promises to be the scandal of the year. Justice Department officials found that the receiving end of bugs planted in the Democratic National Committee's headquarters was located just across the street in two rooms in the Howard Johnson's motel. There members of the security intelligence squad of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President were clearing out their records and tapes minutes after the cops arrested the Watergate Five...