Word: pouches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pouch, cable and phone, the reports pour into Washington; State's "copy and distribute" section makes 70,000 copies a day. Some ambassadorial reports shoot right through to Secretary Rusk, like neutrons through a brick wall. Some are pigeonholed, perhaps to be of use to businessmen or scholars. The bulk of the reporting is supposed to help, in small measure or large, to form U.S. foreign policy...
...STORY THUS FAR: Biff Bundie, University Police undercover agent disguised as graduate student Kevin Stoddard Heath, found a small package in his cost pocket after a strange, foreign man "accidently" bumped into him outside of Sever Hall. Upon opening it, Bundle discovered a pouch of greenish tobacco and a white card on which was printed a Roman numeral seven enclosed in a circle. Realizing the importance of his discoveries, Bundle started back to police headquarters. Meanwhile, in the midst of a fire in the Chem 20 lab in Mallinckrodt, a mutilated, decapitated body has been discovered in a fire blanket...
...young detective didn't hear the last remark, for he was already out the door. He knew he was right now. Tht pouch of tobacco was important. Now he had to find the strange little foreigner with the only clue he had: a cryptic phrase--"the Bronze Rhinoceros...
...then began untying the string which bound up his newly acquired possession. He let out a low whistle as he lifted off the lid. Inside was a simple white card on which was printed a Roman numeral seven, enclosed in a circle. Under the card he found a small pouch of greenish tobacco...
...agents would get word to my superiors that I was working for them. They interviewed me for nine hours that time, and I smoked a lot of cigars. I agreed to work with them." For most of the next five months Thompson carried a Minox camera in his tobacco pouch, snapped pictures of Confidential and Secret reports that crossed his desk (he was not cleared for Top Secret). He delivered from 50 to 100 photographs every two weeks. Occasionally he got money-an average amount was $12.50 for a batch of photographs. "I wasn't in this for money...