Word: reassign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kremlin a favor by helping engineer the exchange of Spymaster Rudolf Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. "The only information Abel could communicate to Moscow now," insisted the Manhattan lawyer, "would be descriptions of life in the penitentiary in Atlanta." Donovan doubted, too, that the Russians would reassign Abel to espionage duty. Said he: "There would always remain the lingering suspicion-especially in a semi-Oriental mind -that he had made some private deal with me to become a double agent...
...program, the Air Force's Mach 3 bomber of the future, and hacked $50 million more from nuclear airplane development. Unexpected was the severe hatcheting of military installations: the Pentagon hopes to close down no fewer than 73 posts both in the U.S. and overseas, plans to reassign the 24,000 civilians who work at them...