Word: cloak
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Each year Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruiters visit Harvard in search of some of the best and brightest minds to replenish the agency's ranks of intelligence analysts and cloak-and-dagger operatives. But recent disclosures indicate that the CIA's interest in what happens to a human mind at Harvard has not been solely confined to the goings-on in a lecture hall. University officials disclosed last week that CIA fiscal records show Harvard involvement in two research projects conducted under the CIA's controversial MK-ULTRA human behavior control program of the 1950s. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel...
Blackley concedes that a few scoundrels eager to cloak their financial transactions from prying eyes may be among his customers, but he insists that most buyers are reputable people. So far, Blackley says, he has not heard of a single case where anyone has refused to cash a red check. Adds Blackley: "It's not devious; it's just red paper. It's for privacy...
...cases with obfuscating rhetoric, demands for evidence that is impossible to secure, requests for delays. Lacking any provision for contempt of court, German judges have generally been powerless to control these lawyers; disbarment is a seldom used procedure. Using the privileged status of the attorney-client relationship as a cloak, about a dozen of these lawyers have served-illegally-as liaison between imprisoned terrorists and their colleagues still at large...
...Louvre would never lend any of the giant canvases from Rubens' Marie de Médicis cycle, any more than his landscape The Cháteau de Steen in Autumn could be expected to travel from London or the Hélène Fourment in a Fur Cloak from Vienna. Still, this is the most concentrated view of Rubens, set in one place, that will ever be seen...
After 40 years, Novelist Eric Ambler, 68, has traded in the cloak and dagger for a trust fund and pocket calculator. Ambler's 15 earlier tales of espionage and intrigue created a shadow world of border crossings and doublecrosses that was both distinctly his own and widely (and successfully) imitated. Such younger writers as John Le Carré and Len Deighton are firmly in the Ambler tradition. The Siege of the Villa Lipp tries a new route. The most imaginative shady deals, it says, are no longer concocted by world-weary agents and conniving government bureaucrats...