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...intelligence about conditions on the island. After the invasion, North sent Kattke to Grenada as his personal emissary. When plans to use a Coast Guard boat's secure radio to contact North fell through, Kattke persuaded State Department officials on the island to send his messages to North in cipher on protected lines...
...took an editorial mop to the mess, scrubbing with strokes so rigorous that they laid tire tracks of emotional trauma across the metaphysical entity that served as a literary cipher for my soul...
...called into the Los Angeles field office, then given lie-detector tests, fired and arrested. A search of his bungalow uncovered an embarrassing array of classified documents, including the original file on Svetlana Ogorodnikova. In her rundown Hollywood apartment, investigators found a spy kit, complete with microdots land cipher pads...
...same time that he laboriously spells out the quaint customs of the Middle East for ethnocentric Middle America, Bulliet apparently concludes that some things can never be explained to the TV-educated audience for whom he writes. So he doesn't even try. What, for instance, is a "cipher pad"? Why haven't the Soviets flattened the Afghan guerilla-controlled town of Girishk? And do you really expect to take Abu Dhabi with...
...write polite thank-you notes, answer the telephone and pay for anything Her Majesty might fancy (the Queen never carries money -too unseemly); her private secretary, Sir Philip Moore, who supervises the handling of the Queen's "boxes," which contain state pa pers waiting for the royal cipher; and two Scotland Yard detectives. As for security, ever since the matutinal intruder in her chamber last summer, she sleeps with a small alarm next to her bed connected to the room of an alert royal page...