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...toward espionage." In 1974, at a bar in San Diego, Walker finally persuaded his buddy, who had recently left his Navy communications job, to re-enlist and supplement his pay by handing over decoding information and top-secret cables. "I envisioned a plan where I would work as a go-between between a new recruit and the Soviets," said Walker during Whitworth's long-running espionage trial in San Francisco. His testimony amounted to an object lesson in what friendship should...
...staged demonstrations near the Kremlin. His activism broadened as he joined the unofficial Moscow Helsinki Watch Group set up to monitor Soviet compliance with the human-rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreements. Shcharansky's fluency in English, his easy good nature and visible courage made him an ideal go-between for human-rights activists and the Western press. The KGB kept him under constant surveillance while he shuttled around Moscow keeping foreign correspondents apprised of the dissident movement...
...After some is needed for more important things, like breaking the evil spell that turns Navarre into a wolf each night and Isabeau into a falcon each day. Seemingly the only mortal lead to retain his human form for more than two hours at a stretch, Phillippe becomes a go-between for the star-crossed lovers, embellishing their tender messages with fanciful tidbits from his own overripe romantic imagination. The lovers' tragic separation gradually softens Phillippe's cynical and egocentric approach to life so that by the film's conclusion, the delinquent is reduced to a blubbering sentimentalist, sobbing over...
...Jersey commodities trader; of six counts relating to illegal traffic in oil and gasoline, an offense that carries the death penalty under a law passed five months after her arrest; in Ikeja, Nigeria. Detained in February 1984 in an anticorruption sweep, McBroom argued that she had been an innocent go-between in the allegedly illegal oil deals. During her year of imprisonment in Nigeria, she contracted malaria and lost 40 lbs. She left for the U.S. the day of her acquittal...
...criminal complaint against him cites one specific event: in the spring of 1975, Koecher stole and copied a four-page CIA document marked SECRET, wadded the copy inside an empty cigarette pack, then passed it to another Czech agent, possibly with Hana as the go-between. Among the documents Koecher allegedly pilfered and gave to the Czechs were lists of undercover CIA agents...