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FIREARMS. In the Hearst-Yoshimura apartment police found two M-1 carbines, a sawed-off shot gun, a Browning 9-mm. pis tol and two .38-cal. Smith & Wesson revolvers. The Harris apartment contained an even bigger arsenal: five .38-cal. revolvers, three M1s, three 12-gauge shotguns, two 9-mm. pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition...
...roadside execution provoked a predictable spree of Moslem revenge. Before long, the road between Tripoli and Zgharta had become a battleground. The private militias of opposing political factions hammered one another with automatic weapons, dynamite, plastique, .50-cal. machine guns and 120-mm. mortars. Newsmen who managed to reach Zgharta reported that some Lebanese army vehicles and internal-security-force Jeeps in the town had their license plates covered with paper or daubed with mud-suggesting that these units were covertly aiding the Christians. As the fighting increased between a reported 3,000-man Moslem force and 2,000 Zghartawis...
...finally, he recalls, "I saw that Ford was passing a note to Kissinger. So I took a few frames." To his astonishment, Rossi realized that Ford's note-advising Kissinger that the speech they were preparing was too long-winded and gloomy-was perfectly legible through his 600-mm. telephoto lens. "Do we need to place East and West in [adjective indecipherable] confrontation? Why not amplify HOPE, which all want?" Ford urged in his handwritten note...
After 20 minutes of cutting and brightening the speech, Kissinger opened his briefcase and took out three folders. When Kissinger came to a document marked TOP SECRET SENSITIVE EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY CONTAINS CODEWORD, Rossi clicked away at 1/30 sec., f/5.6 with TriX rated 1200 ASA in his 35-mm. Canon equipped with 600-mm. lens. What the camera recorded was a report on diplomatic relations between Paris and Hanoi based on information from "an established CIA source with excellent access" in the French Foreign Ministry. According to the CIA source, the French felt "deceived by Hanoi's assurances that...
...abandoned dumbwaiter in New York City. As he later told it in his book Witness, he had saved an envelope full of documents he had received from Hiss -typewritten summaries of State Department papers, some memos handwritten by Hiss, and five pieces of what turned out to be 35-mm. film (two developed strips, three undeveloped rolls...