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...alumni as they watched CIA Director William Martin (Cliff Robertson) explain to his mistress that he had lied before a Senate committee about political assassinations abroad. Martin is a fictional mutation of former CIA Chief Richard Helms, and a plot line of Behind Closed Doors is that the top spook blackmailed President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards) to cover up the killings. Nothing of the kind ever occurred, but some CIA veterans were concerned about the possibilities of further damage to the agency's already battered image...
...national energy policy is indeed doable, if for no other reason than that he has dedicated his considerable intellect to it. After all, he has already been the nation's chief nuclear administrator, spymaster and boss of the Pentagon-though he has never been a physicist, a spook or even a soldier...
...freezing night last week, a burly figure stealthily flipped a fat manila envelope, wrapped in a sheet of plastic, into the parking lot of the Soviet embassy's seven-story residence in northwest Washington. The packet was addressed FOR THE RESIDENT-EYES ONLY, meaning, in spook jargon, that it was intended for the KGB spymaster who lived in the apartment building. Suspecting that it was a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet Jewish activists, a Soviet watchman summoned U.S. officials, who in turn called in U.S. Army demolition experts...
There's just no way to beat the devil, judging from the number of spook-and-demon movies now brewing in Hollywood. Not only will Actress Linda Blair soon make a spirited return in The Heretic-Exorcist II, but Producer Harvey Bernhard has agreed to work on three sequels to The Omen, his picture about a devilish four-year-old named Damien. The Omen has pulled $50 million into U.S. and Canadian box offices since its release, and so Bernhard plans to bring Damien back as a twelve-year-old, a young man and a Western leader who guides...
...chintzy publisher into an Albanian villain, and seduces the ice-cold grad student upstairs as the luscious female spy Tatania--all in books. The poor guy, awwwwwwww. But of course de Broca lets the foible-ridden writer get the shy student in the end. And while the whole spy-spook idea may be too worn to make this into another sleeper a la King of Hearts, this one is good for throw-away fun and an hour of those pretty faces...