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Conversion? On the face of it, swarthy, Dutch-born George Behar Blake, 44, was a British MI-6 (military intelligence) agent who had sold out to the Russians, and for nine years-from Berlin, London and Beirut-fed Moscow everything that came his way. At his hush-hush trial in 1961, Blake admitted to passing "every document" he saw to the Russians, thus blowing the covers of British agents in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. It took the court only 69 minutes to award Blake the longest sentence for espionage in recent British history: 42 years.* The trial raised...
...hush did not fall over Winthrop House Dining Room as Frank stabbed blindly at the top sheet. Sometimes his pencil landed on a name, in which case its owner became one of the chosen 120. Sometimes the Kennedy Institute's special assistant for undergraduate affairs missed the paper entirely. "I don't understand," said a member of the audience. "Neither do I," responded Frank, and stabbed again...
...Vollmer religiously repeats "I am a banker" 50 times every day, he only begins to get rapid promotions after the bank president has exposed himself on two separate occasions before Francis' wife. When the bank president commits suicide, Francis is so close to the top that he can hush up the scandal with his left hand while his right hand is slipping $450,000 in crisp bills into manila envelopes destined for a Swiss numbered account...
Stagecoach Inn, Salado, Texas. Sam Houston and Jim Bowie knew it as a relay station for the Overland stages. Magnificent setting and a highly diversified menu, which includes such local favorites as banana fritters and hush puppies...
...addition, it ran farms, dealt in antiques and trafficked in drugs. But perhaps its biggest racket was protection. If the bribe was right, UDBA could hush up crimes or fix sentences for defendants facing stiff penalties. In fact, UDBA was not above framing...