Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biggest fish in the Colorado haul was New York City-born Arthur Bary, 42 (real name: Diamantis Daramparis), who was carrying $1,872.67 in cash when he was seized. J. Edgar Hoover described Bary as "one of the party's outstanding West Coast underground leaders." Bary had won quite an unusual job from the party; his job was to find out how the FBI was able to plant informers and otherwise collect information on underground Reds. He was, apparently, so maladroit at this task that he could not even foresee or forestall his own arrest...
...Hoover Jr., found a happy solution. Last week's pact in effect recognizes the transfer of full title of the British-built billiondollar industry to the Iranian government, at a cost to Iran that is a fraction of its real value. This should mollify Iranian nationalists. For giant Abadan, the world's largest refinery, and its huge network of affiliated production facilities, the Iranians will pay Anglo-Iranian a mere $70 million in compensation...
...GLENN E. HOOVER Oakland, Calif...
SENATOR H. ALEXANDER SMITH, 74, a New Jersey Republican lawyer who studied under Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, worked for Herbert Hoover's post-World War I relief teams, and rates as one of the Senate's best-informed authorities on Far Eastern policy...
...foreign-service post but was turned down because of his having collaborated with the British. But in time he became head of West Germany's O.F.P.O.C. (Office for the Protection of the Constitution), the security agency charged with detecting espionage, subversion and treason. He was the J. Edgar Hoover of West Germany's FBI. a legendary "man of a thousand secrets." and with him to the east he carried the thousand secrets about the agents, techniques and plans of the West's intelligence...