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...kept secret in the film world," was surprised at Sir Ian's bounding vim. "He eats everything he wants and has the energy of a 20-year-old." McKellen was robust enough to endure eight hours as a corpse in a pool, wearing a rubber wetsuit under a heavy tweed outfit. "He was the most remarkable dead body I've ever seen," says Lynn Redgrave, his housekeeper in the film. "And I've worked with one or two in my time...
...middle of this escalating crisis, a man described by a source as wearing a brown tweed jacket walked into the heavily guarded seventh-floor offices of the State Department's executive secretary, who manages the flow of paper among the department's top officials and especially what goes to and from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. According to a version of events supplied exclusively to TIME by a State Department employee and confirmed by other officials, the man proceeded to open, in full view of two secretaries, a zippered pouch containing some of the highest-level intelligence secrets...
...members around Albright's office and, according to a source, presented employees with photographs of likely suspects. The FBI subjected an officer to extensive lie-detector tests and conducted a search of his home. A source told TIME that the FBI asked a State Department official about a brown tweed jacket, which was never found. FBI agents found no evidence linking the diplomat they questioned with wrongdoing, and he is back at his State Department desk...
WASHINGTON: Call it the purloined paper chase. There are red faces at the State Department Monday after TIME exclusively revealed one of the most embarrassing security breaches of recent times: The tale of the man in the brown tweed jacket. This mysterious stranger apparently walked right into Madeleine Albright?s inner sanctum last month, and proceeded to empty a pouch marked Sensitive Compartmented Information into his briefcase before casually strolling out -- in full view of two secretaries...
...full-scale investigation. Trouble is, they don?t even know what was taken. ?The exact nature of what the papers were and whether anything is missing is the subject of the investigation,? said a State Department official who -- understandably -- preferred to remain anonymous. Next question: Could the brown tweed man be tied to a Washington Times report that the feds are also investigating the passing of information to an Iraqi agent? The spy, according to the Times, procured information about U.S. air strikes, then imminent. However, given the trumpeting of attack plans at the time, it?s hard...