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...this way," says the agency's spook in charge, "we consider this something of an investment...
Look to the Rainbow. Before the Bay of Pigs assault began in 1961, Radio Swan beamed coded messages like "Look well at the rainbow. The fish will rise very soon. Chico is in the house. Visit him." After the attack failed, Swan was gradually phased out of the spook business and used instead for weather reports and sending navigation signals. The U.S. eventually decided that the islands could be safely given away. For Honduras, which has claimed them since 1923, Swan has long been a symbol of Yankee imperialism. In 1961 a boatload of students sailed out to plant...
...agent. Kao (whose name is pronounced Gow) was reported to have been booted out of India, Mauritius and Burundi for fomenting subversion while working for the New China News Agency. The charge may well be true, and at least one U.S. diplomat abroad affirms, "We know he is a spook," though the same accusation was equally applicable to every Chinese diplomat in Africa during the 1960s, when Peking's men were aiding insurgents everywhere...
...SPOOK: Vernacular...
...resident ghost: the Black Nun. Several London theaters have ghosts, most notably the Theater Royal on Drury Lane, where the good-omened "man in gray" floats into view-but only during the opening nights of successful productions. Westminster Cathedral, which was long ghost-free, reported its first spook in 1966, but Kensington and St. James's palaces and Windsor Castle have much longer ghostly histories, and the bloody Tower of London has been plagued for centuries...