Word: unwittingness
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But Picture History succeeds as a telling--and perhaps unwitting--character analogue of Boston and its baseball team, the team that has been blessed with some of the best baseball talent, and cursed with the worst fate. They haven't won a World Series since 1918, and their three years...
His unwitting tourguide is Richard Helms, who rose quietly but steadily for nearly 30 years through the Agency's ranks, responsible for many of its most sensitive--and later embarrassing--covert operations. As chief of the clandestine operations division in the '50s, as a Deputy Director in the early '60s...
To guard against any unwitting influences on the patients or themselves, the doctors did not know which "drug" was being used in any particular case until the end of the test. In the first phase of the experiment, patients who had received placebos experienced less pain than those in the...
As Writer Andrew Bergman's cockamamy script would have it, Vince is currently involved in a complex scheme to prevent an international monetary crisis. Runaway inflation is a terrible thing, Vince explains, because people start to use currency as wallpaper and tend to listen to atonal music. Though Sheldon...
Sources within the agency estimate about 5,000 American academics now work for the CIA and many participate in the screening committees to choose 200-300 foreign students each year. These students are then persuaded or compelled--often by highly irregular means--to serve the CIA. Corson suggests 60 per...