Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Meier, 49, head of the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (literally, Federal Office for Protecting the Constitution), West Germany's counterintelligence agency. A dogged, professional spy catcher, Meier reduced harmful frictions between his agency and state police departments, and with West Germany's equivalent of the FBI. He also introduced a secret computer system to ferret out even "sleepers" and "moles"-deep-cover agents whose meticulous disguises are planned for long-term use. So far, 30 East German spies have been bagged this year. Says an admiring U.S. intelligence officer in Bonn: "Mischa...
...life of a double agent is not an easy one. Consider the case of Nikolai Artamonov, a former Soviet navy captain who defected to the U.S. in 1959 and later became a double agent, employed by the FBI under the name of Nicholas Shadrin. When Shadrin went to Austria in 1975, ostensibly on a skiing vacation, he stopped off in Vienna for a prearranged meeting with two Soviet secret policemen who thought Shadrin was their agent. While his wife waited in their luxurious suite in the Hotel Bristol, Shadrin kept a rendezvous with the two KGB officers on the steps...
Shadrin's Polish-born wife Blanka, however, is accusing the FBI of bungling his Vienna mission, then abandoning a loyal American to his fate. The White House has declared that the U.S. is trying to obtain information about Shadrin, a U.S. citizen. But a top State Department official said that Washington could not be expected to give Shadrin's disappearance high priority in U.S.-Soviet relations. After all, he observed, anyone who becomes an agent, especially a double agent, is playing a perilous game-and knows...
...Arbor, Mich. Within a six-week period in the summer of 1975, 27 patients, many of them in the intensive-care unit, suffered mysterious breathing failures. Several were stricken more than once, and eleven of the patients died (TIME, March 22, 1976). After an investigation by the FBI. two young Filipino nurses who worked in that section of the hospital were arrested. They were charged with dosing some of the stricken patients with the muscle relaxant Pavulon, which is a synthetic version of curare, the lethal plant extract used by South American Indians to tip their poison arrows...
...Walls, who admitted he knew Brantley, nonetheless insisted on his own innocence, pointing out that he had voluntarily agreed to stand in the lineup. Said he: "I'm not crazy. If I'd done it, there's no way I'd even talk to an FBI agent." But Agent Cauthen has a different explanation for Walls' actions. Says he: "I think Walls suspected I had been waiting for him, and he didn't want to arouse my suspicion. He got into something he just didn't know...