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...scheme apparently began on March 27, 1986, when a CIA employee on Government business bought 95 $1 stamps at the McLean, Va., post office. The image on the stamps was an austere candlestick; the inscription read AMERICA'S LIGHT FUELED BY TRUTH AND REASON. At CIA headquarters in Langley, a clerk , noticed that an orange halo that should have surrounded the candle flame was instead printed in the lower right-hand corner. The curiosity was shown to several co-workers; one of them was a philatelist who realized that the misprints were collectors' items...
...nine other stamps they acquired were sent out on agency mail. Skeptics, however, believe that each of the employees kept a single stamp for himself. Jim Ellenberg, owner of a stamp- and coin-collecting shop in suburban Washington, insists he recently gained possession of one of the inverted candlestick stamps from a CIA man. Says Bill Bergstrom, office manager of the Schiff firm: "It is obvious one, all or some ((of the CIA workers)) were holding the rest...
Lawson makes a living in an ill-defined sort of way. "I'm neither a butcher, a baker nor a candlestick maker. I do joint ventures with the entertainment industry. I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild. I wrote a screenplay. I've got a horrendous project involving the integration of entertainment with education. You want to call me a consultant? Will your stomach settle? Okay, I'm a consultant. But really I do whatever the Sam Hill I want to." Lately he has been involved in something called Pro Per Inc., + which is "attempting to de-lawyer...
Sometimes Broderick is a San Francisco newspaper columnist who roams the city looking for human-interest stories. His father, whose holdings include the paper, does not approve: "The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker -- you're very tight with that whole bunch of deadbeats now, aren't you?" Sometimes Jack is a Hollywood scriptwriter, and the bunch is livelier: Producer Marty Magnin, "reeking of Pinaud Lime Sec cologne . . . his shirt open four buttons down . . . beads of sweat around the plugs of his hair transplant"; Las Vegas Club Performer Buddy Seville, formerly Buddy Singapore and before that, Sandy Cairo; a collection...
...found novel places to hide their bugs: in a Perrier bottle, a stuffed toy, a pair of binoculars, shoes, an electric blanket, a horse's saddle. Agents even admit to dropping snooping devices into a confessional at a Roman Catholic church frequented by mobsters, as well as a church candlestick holder and a church men's room. All this, agents insist, was done with court permission...