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...that was almost the size of TWA, employing nearly 20,000 people (as many as the CIA itself) and operating some 200 planes. Even the CIA was not sure just how many. Asked by then Deputy Director Helms to account for all the planes in Doole's regime, a staffer spent three months on the project before confessing that he could never be more than 90% certain. The problem, explained the exasperated staffer, was that Doole was forever leasing planes between his shell corporations and changing their markings and tail numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: a Spymaster Remembered | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...Congressmen received letters that were supposedly written by partners of different law firms but were all signed by the same hand. No matter. Though congressional etiquette demands that each constituent's letter be answered personally, "We just let our word processors talk to their word processors," shrugged a congressional staffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peddling Influence | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

Christopher Lehman, onetime National Security Council staffer, is now with Black, Manafort & Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolving Door | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...WHRB staffer Michael C. Dorf '86, who had answered the call, notified the Harvard police. On their arrival, police asked students to leave the building during what would become the first of two evacuations...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Bomb Scare Forces WHRB Shut-Down | 12/4/1985 | See Source »

...National Security Adviser McFarlane said only that Reagan's "community of advisers" proposed the idea "on the road," meaning on the way to Chicago. At about 11:50 a.m., as a presidential motorcade wended its way to a Sara Lee bakery in Deerfield, Ill., McFarlane informed a White House staffer that the Egyptian plane bearing the hijackers would leave Cairo at about 4 p.m. EDT. After Reagan held forth on tax reform at the bakery, McFarlane informed the President at about midday that it might be possible to intercept the jetliner. In a private room inside the bakery, Reagan agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The U.S. Sends a Message | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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