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The Central Intelligence Agency, offspring of World War II's Office of Strategic Services, has its own clubby traditions. Knightley quotes Allen Dulles, who testified on agency staffing before a congressional committee in 1947. "I should think," said the future CIA director, "that a couple of dozen people throughout the...
On a virtually empty Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt, a relaxed, subdued Daniloff sipped champagne and talked with reporters. The next morning he boarded a flight for Washington. The movie on board was the felicitously titled Sweet Liberty. The crowd of newsmen that awaited him at Dulles Airport rivaled one that...
The Union artillerymen were cut to bits, and by 3:15 p.m., the disaster that the North was to call the First Battle of Bull Run was all but over. "Chase them Yankees back to Washington," shouted a woman in the spectators' area. Overhead, a supersonic Concorde ghosted upward from...
The success of privatization at the local level has stirred the imagination of President Reagan, who thinks that it can work to a limited extent for the U.S. Government. The fiscal 1987 budget, which Reagan presents to Congress this week, was expected to propose selling many Government-owned operations to...
The U.S. itself is largely to blame for the unrealistic expectations that greeted the birth of the U.N. during the last days of World War II. Ashamed that Washington's refusal to join the League of Nations after World War I had doomed that earlier bid for collective security, American...