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...Party-member described the defeat of the Spanish in the Spanish-Cuban-American War and how the United States "won" Cuba as a prize to the victor. The conference continued for three hours. We broke for lunch and milled about the room asking questions of the officials and of our hosts about concrete manifestations of "Yankee Imperialism." Their accounts explained how the United States maintained the economic blockade against Cuba, but how the revolutionaries had captured "gusanos"--Cuban counter-revolutionaries were called worms--who were backed by the C.I.A...
...Angleton assumed responsibility for counter-espionage-combatting the activities of adversary spooks round the world. Victor Marchetti, the ex-CIA official who turned agency critic, said that colleagues regarded Angleton as "a gentleman, a connoisseur of fine wines, an intellectual who knew orchids, and a fanatic who was always able to keep his fanaticism in rein...
...Victor F. White...
...larkish script concerns a descendant of Victor Frankenstein-a level and kindly sort who is forever being ridiculed for his forebear's madness. An edict in an old will summons young Frankenstein to middle Europe, and he travels to Transylvania by train. ("Pardon me, boy," he inquires, "is this the Transylvania Station?"). He is greeted by Igor (Marty Feldman), a hunchbacked servant with a movable hump and askew eyes, and conducted to mist-shrouded Castle Frankenstein. Soon he stumbles on Victor's secret experimental notes, bound in handsome leather and stamped HOW I DID IT. "What a fruitcake...
...electoral law was carefully designed to magnify the parliamentary strength of the victor in the election -and to assure Caramanlis of a subservient and obedient Parliament...