Word: hansen
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...biography, the transcript of taped interviews with people playing characters who knew Boone, is the brainchild of Mather House juniors Brooks Hansen and Nick Davis. They say they were strongly influenced by the recent biographies of Norman Mailer and Edie Sedgewick, both of which were also based on interviews...
...Hansen and Davis spent much of the summer developing Boone's life and writing detailed descriptions of 50 of Boone's friends and acquaintances. Portrayed by 40 students, these characters tell their stories and anecdotes for his biography...
...Hansen says the actors are "very free to do what they like with their characters." He said he wants to make the biography as life-like as possible, explaining that "we're not writing the book, we're executing...
...claim that Gordievsky had been a longtime double agent for the West first surfaced when Erik Ninn-Hansen, Denmark's Justice Minister, asserted in a television interview after the London disclosure that Gordievsky had cooperated with the Danish government while he was assigned to the Soviet embassy in Copenhagen from 1972 to 1978. But British officials disputed the notion that they had simply taken over the Soviet agent when he moved to Britain...
...have passed along in ten years as an undercover agent for the KGB: details of NATO strategy and military contingency plans, alliance intelligence documents on troubled areas and Norwegian government confidential memos on meetings with world leaders. "Treholt has caused irreparable damage to the Norwegian defense," said Fredrik Bull-Hansen, Norway's Chief of Defense...