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...under the radar. She began working at CIA headquarters in Langley, assigned to the directorate of operations, the CIA'S clandestine branch that manages its human spying overseas and is one of the agency's most secretive directorates. "NOCs aren't supposed to come into the building," said Fred Rustmann, a former senior CIA official and a Plame superior. "It doesn't serve cover well. It may serve the moment. They break the rules for expediency. In Valerie's case, she's a bright young woman. She has some experience in nuclear proliferation...
...HAVER, 79, wholesome actress of such 1940s film musicals as The Dolly Sisters and Look for the Silver Lining, promoted briefly as the next Betty Grable; in Los Angeles. A tumultuous personal life led her in 1953 to join a convent briefly, before returning to Hollywood and marrying actor Fred MacMurray in 1954. Their marriage lasted until his death...
...Maine went for Bush in 2004, and of those, all but Virginia and Maine have at least one Democratic Senator whom the group will try to characterize as out of step with his or her constituency. Progress for America has lined up conservative celebrities, including former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson of Law and Order fame, to publicly endorse the nominee...
...foreign fighters. Insurgent commanders tend to view Iraqi fighters as more valuable alive: they have extensive support networks and know the home terrain. "Why waste such a valuable resource on a single mission when you can use him for a number of other important tasks?" says Navy Commander Fred Gaghan, who investigates bombings in Iraq. These days, however, more and more Iraqis like Marwan Abu Ubeida are signing up to kill themselves. That is happening, Iraqi insurgents say, in part because the rebels' tactics now involve deploying a large number of such attackers, which is depleting the supply of foreign...
...that they were about to be blown up. "In a majority of cases, you find hands chained to the steering column, so these were not volunteers," says al-Juboori, the Interior Ministry spokesman. But U.S. investigators who have looked into scores of cases believe coercion is rare. Navy Commander Fred Gaghan, head of the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell, which has investigated more than 60 bombings in the past five months, has not found any evidence of fetters. "They don't need them, because they have plenty of volunteers who will do it willingly," he says...