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Word: fbi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caught or to get away with - it all. With complete believability, the plot keeps twisting right up to the final words. Like so many fellow toilers in mystery-genre obscurity, Collee proves himself a true novelist. A Paper Mask should satisfy readers who have never cared whether the FBI was bursting into the kitchen or, as Christie suggested in a title, the body was in the library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Going Beyond Brand Names | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...pair of dark sedans filled with secret police eager to dissuade the reporters from venturing out. Undaunted, Banta's translator gunned his small Czech-made Skoda down the city's cobblestone streets, one of the cars roaring behind. He finally shook off the pursuers with a neat "FBI turn" -- a screeching U across three lanes of traffic on an overpass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Mar 27 1989 | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...both sides of the superpower divide grumbling, the Soviets and the Americans each ousted a military attache on charges of espionage. The first blow was struck by the U.S. two weeks ago, when it expelled Lieut. Colonel Yuri Pakhtusov from the Soviet embassy in Washington. State Department and FBI officials accused Pakhtusov of having received classified information about computer-security programs. Pakhtusov allegedly got the documents from an American employee of a U.S. company that does business with the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Yeah? Well, Take That! | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard police soon contacted the Boston Musuem of Fine Arts (MFA) because the MFA had reported a 14th century Ming vase stolen from its Vitrene case only four days before. According to Tempesta, FBI agents investigating the MFA theft checked the Fogg for fingerprints because the modus operandi in both incidents was similiar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Attempt Theft of Fogg Sculpture | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

This week, the FBI arrested two New York men in connection with the MFA theft. George Athanatos, 34, and Ronald Corteselli, 28, are now also being investigated in connection with thefts in Detroit, Columbus, Albany, Syracuse, Baltimore and San Francisco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Attempt Theft of Fogg Sculpture | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

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