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...Hotel, someone slipped a note under the door of the suite occupied by Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, the U.S. commander in Greece. The note appeared to have been written in blood. It bore the crudely lettered words, "Tomorrow you die," and a picture of a blood-dripping dagger...
...seems simple enough for the administration to set up one central collecting agency, and junk the host of regional depots that make the job of tracking down missing property worthy of cloak-and-dagger outfit. Such a move would not only be a blessing for the careless undergraduates, but sensible and efficient from an administrative point of view...
...recent, I wish to deny, categorically, membership in the League for Reaction, and participation in any sort of HYRC "cloak and dagger" activity for which the various extraordinary schemes are suggested...
Fisher also attacked the "Machiavellian atmosphere" of the HYRC. He referred to a "Cloak and Dagger Department" (headed by Arthur W. Bingham '51) which, he said, at various times had considered 1) wrecking the NSA, 2) packing the Student Council, 3) infiltrating into the Liberal Union, 4) smearing candidates as Communists, and 5) printing birth control leaflets and distributing them under the name of prominent NSA officers in order to cause dissension between those officers and the Catholic schools...
Since India surrounds Hyderabad, Patel and Nehru could probably make good their threat. The Nizam, however, had a counter-threat. A dagger-eyed little man named Kasim Razvi calmly threatened to protect Hyderabad by starting another series of India-wide communal massacres...