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...enjoyed freedom of movement, but also savored the fruits of capitalism. Using at least four aliases and always trailed in public by a CIA or FBI bodyguard, the Ukrainian has been frequenting Washington's bars and discos and relaxing at resorts in the Caribbean and Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. For companionship (his wife Lengina died in Moscow of an overdose of pills after his defection), Shevchenko has been leasing the close attentions of an expensive woman who was located through an escort service listed in the Washington Yellow Pages...
Thus Madsen could be found not long ago up to her waist in a chilly Pocono Mountains lake, putting a nine-month-old puppy through a series of tests to develop his lifesaving instincts and skills. "He's an enthusiastic kid," Madsen told TIME Sports Editor B.J. Phillips. "He loves the water. I don't think he's been dry four days in the last three months." As one judge shivered in a windbreaker and another strode the shore line in brogans, the pup, Aesirsson, bounded out of the water and sprayed everyone within five feet with...
Thus ended a dramatic stake-out at the Mount Pocono airfield that involved U.S. customs and border-patrol agents. Federal Drug Enforcement officials and Pennsylvania state police. The cops' sporadic watch had begun last month, following a tip that a mysterious chartered plane might land somewhere in Pennsylvania with illegal goods...
...Exactly 13½ hours after the DC-6 touchdown at Mount Pocono, a young American walked onto the 19th floor of a commercial office building in downtown Bogota and pumped three hollow-point bullets into Octavio González, 38, chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Colombia. González slumped to the floor dead. The gunman quickly reloaded and, while secretaries scattered, fired several more shots before putting the revolver to his head and killing himself...
Deprived of such shelter, Patty and the Harrises next occupied an isolated farmhouse in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, near the hamlet of South Canaan. They did so, the FBI believes, with the aid of Jack Scott, former athletics director at Ohio's Oberlin College, who with his wife Micki has refused to answer FBI questions or appear before a federal grand jury investigating the movements of Patty and the Harrises...