Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some ways a dangerous sport too, but less for the fish than for the angler's relatives. Fly-fishermen can quickly become world-class bores. Solitude becomes an end in itself. Spouses bristle at the suggestion that family vacations should consist of two weeks at some bug-infested fishing camp in Forsaken, Mont. Dinner-party invitations trail off as conversation seems to center on the pleasures of fishing nymphs in deep riffles or the relative merits of bamboo and graphite fly rods. Children growl at the proposal that the backyard pool be returned to nature and converted to a trout...
...other reasons, the twelve intelligence experts who rushed to Moscow in the wake of Bracy's confession were also predisposed to believe the Soviets had got into the code room. In late 1983 French intelligence had told the NSA that a Soviet bug had been found in a coding machine at the French embassy in Moscow. The French warned that the Soviets might also have bugged communications at the U.S. embassy...
...said he had never let Soviets into the embassy or involved Bracy in any espionage activities. More important, investigators concluded, ; even if Bracy had been a spy, without Lonetree's cooperation he could not have given the Soviets enough access to the code room to allow them to bug it and leave no trace...
From casinos to sports books to lotteries, gambling has mushroomed into a $278 billion business this year. A short while ago it was illegal; today its biggest promoters are the state governments. -- Despite the Marine spy scandal, U.S. investigators now contend that Soviet agents did not bug the Moscow embassy code room. See NATION...
...Plexiglas, and three video cameras track him constantly. He is so prone to commit mayhem that when a visitor calls, Bosket is chained backward to the inside of his cell door. When the door is swung open, there is Bosket, pinned to the bars like a specimen in a bug collection...