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Papadopoulos was liaison between the two intelligence services, U.S. and Greek. In fact, he was the one trusted person, the one super-agent, in Greece, of the CIA. And as I like to put it, the first known agent of the CIA to become prime minister in Europe is Papadopoulos...
...reporters have badgered Press Secretary Ron Ziegler to make public a full list of the White House staff, but none has yet been made available. When it is issued, the roster will include, among others, Special Assistant Roger E. Johnson, a discreet businessman whose job is to act as liaison between Nixon and his old friends. "Some friends," says Johnson, "have been advised that if they have a problem-or just want to talk-to call me. Their problems will reach his [Nixon's] ear." For such service, Johnson earns around...
...help rebuild it, she had silicone injections to fill out her cheeks and plastic surgery that lifted her upper eyelids but did nothing for her spirit. Hypnosis, yoga, cell implants and love affairs helped her morale, but by the end of one liaison Luciana realized, "I had really become very plain looking-almost nothing on my face, nothing on my nails, the most casual clothes." After another year during which she was "so bored I used to remove the hairs from my legs, one by one, with tweezers," Luciana went back to Rome to face facts and her mirror: beauty...
...role in targeting and operation control is due more to its mystique than formal delegation of authority. The Agency is highly regarded by the military, both in terms of its general intelligence-gathering capabilities and its familiar-ity with Laos. The Air Force officers attached to the 4802nd Joint Liaison Detachment at Udorn-which coordinates Air Force and CIA functions-regard approval by the Agency as an index of their performance, and rarely oppose its recommendations...
Many Hill veterans also consider the inner White House staff, apart from the legislative liaison team, inept in its approach to Congress. One member of that staff claims that his colleagues "don't understand politics, much less the congressional variant of national politics. They don't know what finesse is. This is government by political advance...