Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with TV cameras broadcasting live from grave-side and remains passed casually out for public inspection, prompted foreign observers to charge Brazilian officials with negligence. Fears mounted when the experts in Sao Paulo initially declined assistance from abroad. Last week, however, the Wiesenthal Center supplied the Brazilians with the dossier it had assembled on Mengele and prevailed on them to allow three U.S. experts to observe the forensic process. "I understand that it is Brazil's national pride that is in question," said Rabbi Hier, "so it is difficult for them to say that American experts are going...
...eminent Soviet expert on Asia, and China in particular, was Mikhail Kapitsa. Erudite and capable, gregarious and jovial, Kapitsa would undoubtedly have moved faster if he had not received a black mark in his dossier and a deep scar on his head when, as Ambassador to Pakistan in 1961, he took up with his driver's wife. The chauffeur discovered the liaison. Rushing into the Ambassador's office, where Kapitsa was using his couch as a bed, the infuriated husband clouted the diplomat on the head with a crowbar. He might have killed Kapitsa if aides had not come...
Department-store officials do not expect Nipon's tax problems to hurt sales of his popular dresses. Observed Sonia Adler, editor of Washington Dossier, a monthly society magazine: "Most people who buy his clothes are not going to read about his tax problems in the papers." Nancy Reagan, however, is no longer among his customers. According to Sheila Tate, the First Lady's press secretary, "She had some Nipon outfits in her wardrobe back in the first year of the Administration, and she wore some of his clothes during the '80 campaign because they are easy...
...post-op briefing session, Kimberly received his instructions. Disguised as a commercial attache, he is to retrieve a long lost dossier containing the names of all Soviet controlled spies operating in Britain during Kimberly's days. Although the early scenes are tightly done, this early promise is soon squandered in much of the useless talk, poor humor and muddled action that follows...
Well aware that a less publicized but more permanent funeral awaits him in the Soviet Union once he heads over the dossier, Kimberly decides to defect in England--this time as Serge Kosminsky, commercial attache, Quickly slipping out of the hands of the British Foreign Office, Kimberly goes on to search for the document. Enter Admiral Scaithe, played by Laurence Oliver, Kimberly's successor in British intelligence and the man assigned to track down the supposed defector. Having watched Kimberly's supposed funeral on televison, Scaithe does not immediately suspect that his former colleague and friend is back in town...