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...Cloak, Dagger & Files. In the last two or three years, CIA has got closer to its main function as a central evaluation agency, a mission where the information is hard to get and harder to evaluate, but where espionage is only one of many techniques. The mass-organization of modern military, economic and political systems means that every government has to give thousands of officers, engineers, businessmen, artisans and minor politicians access to thousands of facts that the government might like to cover...
...packed expert on Lower Slobbovian economic history has his place in such a setup, and so has the lawyer or the archaeologist who is trained to draw conclusions from incomplete and obscure evidence. The CIA has dozens more of both types than it has of spies, agents or cloak & dagger...
...with the artist. Both men were in Madrid in 1767, and Casanova's Memoirs record how he embroiled Mengs in his adventures. One day a beautiful woman invited Casanova to her bedroom, where he was staggered by the sight of her former lover dead on the bed, a dagger in his throat. Undaunted, Casanova threw the body into a stream behind the house, soon after heard that the police were after him. Casanova fled to the house of Mengs, where he hid out until the police finally caught up with him and bundled him off to jail...
...brought Ike a gold dagger...
...Seoul was Foreign Minister and Acting Premier Pyun Yung Tai, who sat last week in a bullet-pocked hospital in Seoul. Said Pyun: "The leaders of the free world are still suffering from the ideological hangover of the Second World War. You wait while your enemy is sharpening his dagger to kill you. You will call me a warmonger, but I am not. We have learned the lessons of war as you never have and we want peace desperately. But we want a real peace, not a sham peace. We are not stupid. We know we are fighting not only...