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...Services, spent the war in liaison with European labor unions, including those in Nazi-occupied territory, performing sabotage and espionage functions. Goldberg was discharged as a major in 1944, and the details of his work remain classified. All he will say is that published stories about his cloak-and-dagger operations behind enemy lines are false. He once wandered into German-held territory in France, but only because he had lost his way-and he quickly discovered the mistake and left the premises...
Plain Vigilance. According to the Russians, Makinen had been approached in Berlin by two mysterious sponsors whom he knew only as "Jim" and "Dwyer," and provided with Intourist food and lodging vouchers, camera, film and dagger-everything but the traditional cloak. They told him what places to visit and what military installations he should photograph. The Russian press boasted that his downfall had been due to the vigilance of "plain Soviet workers" who had become suspicious of Makinen's choice of such unsightly picture subjects as airfields, army trucks and soldiers...
...driven to despair by the chaotic rule of affable President Sukarno. From Sumatra to the Celebes, more than 100,000 men flocked to the rebel colors. Demanding more autonomy for the outer islands and prompt suppression of Indonesia's potent Communist Party, the rebels initially got cloak-and-dagger assistance from Washington's ubiquitous C.I.A...
...jump," Taylor once confessed frankly, "but I like to be with people who like to jump." Taylor went into action with the 82nd in Africa and Sicily, soon earned a reputation as a tough, resourceful officer and was singled out for one of the most dramatic cloak-and-dagger missions...
...famous "dagger" speech he delivers as though utterly unmoved; he seems to see at most a hatpin. At other times, in direct violation of Hamlet's advice, he tears a passion to tatters. Whatever he does, the lines just do not carry conviction; and we get, for shame, either sham or ham. In the "multitudinous seas" passage, he bids to improve on the playwright by saying, "Making the green...