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Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, says, "The black administrator must be careful not to become an appendage or an expedient--the academic spook who sat by the door. [He] may be forced to become the sole keeper of minority affairs, to the exclusion of other burning affairs in today's academic revolution--or evolution. This possibility is a form of solitary self-confinement...
Scott is never animated, never even engaged. Others - including Trish Van Devere and the others (excepting Paul Sorvino, who makes an amusingly sardonic spook) - embody the antique definition of good children: they speak only when spoken to. In the case of such actors as Fritz Weaver and Elizabeth Wilson, this is a blessing...
...Spook, Lux, DuWatt, and Swan...
...payroll as undercover informants. Some are full-time agents using journalism as a cover. Only five of the 40 were said to be regular staffers for large news organizations. Still, the news raised eyebrows and caused some editors to wonder if that odd stringer who contributes occasional stories from spook-crowded environs like the Caribbean and Eastern Europe might be accepting more than news tips from the CIA. The agency, of course, named no names. But in response to questions, the CIA assured the Star-News, New York Times and TIME, among others, that their correspondents were not involved...
Such episodes returned to spook Ziegler. His relations with White House reporters were shaky even before Watergate. Now, with his added title of Assistant to the President, Ziegler is doing less of a routine briefing of newsmen...