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Reagan also loved government as the derring-do of secret agents. Private heroics by the CIA, the FBI -- the kind of mission he felt he had participated in when informing on fellow actors during the Communist hunt in Hollywood -- appealed to his storytelling sense, to his belief in the lone...
His title at the NSC was innocuous: deputy director for political-military affairs. But North's derring-do style and can-do effectiveness put him at the center of a series of strategic covert actions: he helped plan the mining of Nicaraguan harbors by CIA agents; his office was the...
As news of secret U.S. dealings with Iran began to appear last week, attention inexorably turned to a cluster of suites in the Old Executive Office Building next door to the White House. They house a select band of globe- trotting staffers of the National Security Council, the executive agency...
The rampart has inevitably inspired false tales of bravado and derring-do. Two weeks ago, Heinz Braun, an East Berlin tire salesman, captured worldwide attention when he claimed to have escaped to the West by painting his car to resemble a Soviet patrol vehicle and dressing himself and three mannequins...
The President, dwarfed by a giant sepia photograph of OSS Founder William ("Wild Bill") Donovan behind the rostrum, paid generous tribute to these erstwhile practitioners of the dark arts of spying, espionage, sabotage and behind-the-lines derring-do. The OSS's achievements, said Reagan, were of the sort for...