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...Cubans testified that he had indeed worked with Wilson in both the CIA and Naval Intelligence, albeit before Wilson had put out the murder contract. The reaction of a member of the predominantly black jury appeared to reflect public opinion at the time: "This seemed like some kind of spook deal when all dudes were lying on one another. They ought to go make some of them James Bond movies...
...first secretary at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1973 to 1977, was later tabbed as having been an intelligence agent during that period. Washington read Moscow's attempt to place him for a six-month stay in Los Angeles as a clumsy provocation. "He's a spook, a rather bad spook," said one State Department official. Explained another: "If they had wanted to slip in ringers at the Games, this was not a good way to begin it." Officials said that the U.S. would gladly grant a visa to a legitimate substitute for Yermishkin...
...calls it. Along the way, Burt becomes entangled with the producer's secretary-mistress, a Palestinian terrorist, and is kidnaped by Moroccan radicals who rashly expect his employers to pay $1 million in ransom. Burt, however, not only knows his "onions on Islam," he is a part-time spook and a full-time survivor who proves devilishly resourceful...
...architect of Spook knew his business, so it was not hideous, but it was full of odd corners and architecturally indefensible superfluities, and these rooms where Hollier lived were space-wasting and inconvenient...
James Bondian notions of espionage notwithstanding, secret agents generally avoid killing one another: it is considered a violation of the rules of the game and can lead to reprisals. Still, many West Europeans wondered last week whether the violent murder of so high-ranking a spook had not played a key role in persuading Mitterrand that it was time to send the Soviet officials packing...