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...kept close tabs on the generals. The mistress of one of his agents was the official stenographer for Cabinet meetings; Agee was privy to transcripts before the new governors. The CIA concentrated heavily on discovering the secrets of Cubans, Soviets and satellites. Agents installed eavesdropping bugs in apartments. Lip readers studied films taken of Soviet officials strolling in their embassy gardens. If the subtle approach failed, the Company happily played the role of pimp for overamorous Soviet officials. One was lured into bed by a comely agent, where his performance -said to be remarkable-was photographed and recorded for possible...
...real scene-stealers are the supporting characters. Dan Strickland as the Duke is a walking cartoon of the stereotypical stiff-upper-lip Englishman (there a even a number called "Stiff Upper Lip"): he slinks around the stage in an unhealthy slouch, his face frozen in a mournful sneer. Another cartoon character with a face to match is Jansen, a Revenue Officers (Timothy Wallace), who rushes in and out pursuing those clever bootleggers, the scowl across his bulldog J. Edgar Hoover jowls growing deeper each time he's outwitted...
...standing in a Los Angeles office building. His hands are shaking. "This is the last one," he croaks. "I'm so nervous I can't stand it." His accomplice, trimly dressed and wearing horn-rimmed glasses, is chewing his lower lip. "You'd think it would get easier with each delivery," he mutters. "But it doesn...
With a scrutable smile of confidence and a quip of the lip-"I only visit friendly capitals," he told a welcoming wag who asked him why he did not stay longer in Washington-Henry Kissinger returned last week from a ten-day 18,400-mile tour of the Middle East and Europe. The Secretary of State assured President Ford and members of Congress that he had created the momentum necessary to break an impasse in the disengagement negotiations between Egypt and Israel. The test will come in two weeks when he returns to Cairo and Jerusalem for a further round...
...difference from Abu Rudeis if the fields were given back to Egypt. "Once the tankers are loaded," he said grandly, "where it goes is of no importance to us." The Israelis, however, are nervous about being so totally dependent for oil on Iran, which in the past has given lip-service approval to the Arab cause. They also worry that all then" oil would henceforth have to come by tanker through the strait of Bab al-Mandab along the Red Sea-a route that could easily be blockaded by Somalia, Southern Yemen or the Moslem rebels in Eritrea...