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...resigned last week and advised CIA Director William Colby that he planned to organize an association of retired intelligence officers to defend the agency. But younger employees have also been affected. In Washington, for example, some young analysts had joined the CIA only after assurances from recruiters that the cloak-and-dagger exploits of the cold war were a thing of the past. Now some of these idealistic employees are disillusioned. At the same time, CIA agents in Western Europe are worried that they can no longer count on headquarters to protect them. As a result, they are reluctant...
After the ceremony broke up, the previously unidentified men came out from behind their cloak of gray flannel. Of the ten surviving Holmes clerks, seven had made it to the ceremony: Chauncey Belknap, Thomas G. Corcoran, Lawrence Curtis, H. Chapman Rose, Robert W. Wales, and Alger Hiss and his brother Donald...
...scene in Godfather I, when Vito's daughter is married, set the precedent for this emphasis and Coppola has created several new ones--Michael's son's first communion, the funeral of Vito's widow, Michael's appearance before a congressional committee, and, most bizarre of all, a long cloak, dagger and revolution sequence in pre-Castro Cuba...
...problem was certainly the chaos caused by the campaign to criticize Confucius and Lin Piao-and by sly indirection, Chou En-lai-that peaked last year. Mass meetings, rallies and indoctrination sessions took workers away from production. According to the secret documents, workers made wage demands under the cloak of political grievances, and a number of cadres left their jobs to avoid getting involved...
...York to London in a record-breaking 1 hr. 55 min. As head of Lockheed's top-secret "Skunk Works" design shop, named after the foul-smelling factory in Li'l Abner, he also played a crucial role in developing spy satellites, electronic jamming and other cloak-and-dagger technologies...