Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special task force was housed on the second floor at Langley, just another office among the several of the counterintelligence staff. The existence of the unit and the work it was performing were tightly held secrets...
...traitor.) The informant also knew that Ames had access to the compromised Soviet cases. And she knew that his wife Rosario did not come from a wealthy family. Based on this information, the CIA's Dan Payne, a young man who was the only investigator assigned to Vertefeuille's unit, began a routine inquiry into Ames' spending. Payne examined real estate records in Arlington County and found that Ames had paid $540,000 for his house. There was no record of a mortgage. He asked the Treasury Department whether Ames' name had shown up on any currency transaction reports, which...
That spring the joint mole-hunt unit decided to take another look at Ames' wealth. Paul Redmond assigned the task to Dan Payne, who had begun the financial inquiry three years earlier but been pulled off it. Ames was also the only suspect singled out for this type of investigation...
...computer world: What kind of computer do you have? When I ask a non-technical person the question, the response is a brand-name, like Compaq, Gateway 2000 or Apple. When I ask a "computer person" the question, the response is the name of the computer's central processing unit (CPU), such as 486 or Pentium...
...stations. NBC's long-running Unsolved Mysteries, which generally deals with crimes and disappearances, is delving more frequently into the paranormal. Meanwhile, Fox's slick, high-rated The X-Files gives its fictional tales of the supernatural a whiff of authenticity by framing them as cases from a unit of the fbi that investigates paranormal phenomena...