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...years the Central Intelligence Agency has employed its wits, wiles and considerable manpower in an effort to stop publication of large chunks of a book called The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. The agency has fought so hard because the book's principal author, Victor Marchetti, 44, was a CIA officer with access to much secret material and a zeal to reveal it. Although its reliability will be questioned, the book is the most detailed expose of CIA tactics to date and is bound to pose embarrassing questions about the aims and activities of American espionage...
...book is still involved in a legal tangle. The CIA is contending that, as the result of a contract that every CIA employee signs, Marchetti has no right to publish any material that the agency deems classified. Nonetheless the book will be published this June-in a most unusual form. Blank spaces will appear where 168 passages have been deleted at CIA insistence, and the courts have not yet finally resolved whether or not the missing material deserves national-security classification. A larger number of portions initially deleted by the agency and then reluctantly restored by it will be included...
Director Nicolas Roeg (Performance, Walkabout) has done for the sudden cut what Bertollucci did for the tracking shot the day he went out and hired a guy named Marchetti--the best camera pusher in the world. He has made the mystery of the camera into a world of mystery...
...cost of hydrogen in half. This process subjects ordinary water to the 800° C. heat of a nuclear reactor. At such temperatures, the hydrogen and oxygen in the water begin to separate; each can then be combined with other chemicals and eventually extracted from them. Dr. Cesare Marchetti, head of Euratom's materials division, predicts: "By improving the technology through experience, we can push the costs of hydrogen fuel down by perhaps 5% to 10% annually." The era of cheap hydrogen will start, he thinks...
Second place should go to last year's division champions, the Baltimore Colts. Though Johnny Unitas and his corps of sly, experienced receivers will have little trouble scoring, the defense, having lost Gino Marchetti and Bill Pellington, has too many mediocrities and talented but untried young...