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...operation was Andrei Robertovich Lusis, 37, a postdoctoral exchange student who did research on metal oxides in the physics department at Cornell University during the 1976-77 academic year. Lusis' age made him suspect to the FBI: Wasn't he a little old to be just another schoolboy? the bureau asked itself. Perhaps his studies back in the U.S.S.R. had included microphotography and other spooky skills at a special KGB training center. The bureau placed him under surveillance...
...this case, at least, the schoolboy remained honorable. He reported the FBI's threat to the Soviet embassy in Washington, which in turn protested to the State Department. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher complained to the White House about the FBI'S disregard of the State Department, and Joseph Duffey, then Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, took the matter up with Vice President Walter Mondale. At least one indignant official accused FBI hard-liners of deliberately trying to sabotage detente. Much more likely, FBI bureaucrats were stubbornly, and ham-handedly, doing what they...
FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carre -Kingkill, Thomas Gavin The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
...Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carre...
Both prognosticators played high school football but turned to the cerebral side of the game when they came to Harvard. Matthews broke his arm playing high school ball back home in Middlesboro, Kentucky; Zbikowski tore up his knee while serving as captain of his schoolboy 11 in Detroit, and both have become reconciled to playing House football...