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...were replaced. The shifts took place before Turner arrived, but Knoche believes such work requires a periodic turnover of agents who will go all-out for a time and then take on other duties. Explains Knoche: "The work by its nature-where you constantly have to build negative or paranoid assumptions-can almost guarantee a form of illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: An Old Salt Opens Up the Pickle Factory | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...useless: everyone has a library story--preferably Widener--but this one was too good to resist) one day, last June, an official at Houghton noticed a pen left lying on a table. Now it is universally known that pens are prohibited in Houghton, to the point of extinction: paranoid librarians would claim that potentially destructive annotations scribbled in a book's margins can be far more damaging in ink, than in pencil...

Author: By John A. Spritz, | Title: Pranks and embarrassments | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...agents, who lured him into a trap baited with a fake payoff package ostensibly from the Soviets. Moore's attorney said his client may change his plea to innocent by reason of insanity, and produced a psychiatrist who told the court that Moore appeared to be paranoid and insane at the time he tried to peddle a CIA directory to the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Stealing the Company Store | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...extravagant characterizations are sick, sick, sick, and getting sicker. I had heard that she had matured into something less acid, more humorous, less paranoid. What in the world does the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1977 | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

Last week "Motor Mouth" was in overdrive. First he said that Americans should not get "all paranoid" about "a few Communists [in Africa], even a few thousand Communists." Then, asked if he thought the South African government was "illegitimate," he replied with a breezy "Yeah." In Pretoria, the U.S. ambassador was immediately summoned for an explanation. In Washington, a State Department spokesman formally repudiated the remark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Muzzle for 'Motor Mouth'? | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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