Secret Agent

Deacon, Richard. John Dee scientist, geographer, astrologer and secret agent to Elizabeth I. London Muller, 1968. 309p. 

Frugier, F., Kosuta, S., Murray, J.D., Crespi, M., Szczyglowski, K. Cytokinin Secret agent of symbiosis. Trends Plant Sci 13 (2008) 115-120. 

Deacon also reports that when China s narcotics smuggling operations were at their height, they were controlled by the Central External Liaison Department and the Ministry of Investigation. According to Deacon, the major secret agents were employed through the pro-Peking China Sailors Union in... 

Deacon adds "From Italian sources, diplomatic and otherwise, comes confirmation that the heroin traffic between Hong Kong and Europe is master-minded by Chinese secret agents. It is even suspected that there may have been undercover deals between the Chinese and the Mafia for distribution of the stuff."... 

Hutchinson, Vesco see also James Hougan, Spooks The Haunting of America — The Private Use of Secret Agents (New York William Morrow and Co., 1978), pp. 390-392. 

A lot of my readers were confused by ray Secret Agent concept. Since our country is terribly in need of Secret Agents, I ll separate fact from myth so you can see if you qualify. 

In actuality, hoviever, the average Secret Agent is nore like Don Adams in "Get Smart" or Inspector Clou-seau of the "Pink Panther" series, played by the late Peter Sellers. In short, they are stupid and bungling. 

The KGB isn t much better. The British Secret Agents are tops. The reason for this is that most of them are trained by the KGB. And since the British are more intelligent than the down-bred Russians, they know how to use their training . But the American Secret Agent is usually a paranoid clod, or traitor. 

But by far, the worst lot of Secret" Agents is the CIA. Vice President Bush used to head the organization. When Reagan dies If Bush runs the country like he did the CIA the country s done for. 

Gordon Liddy was for a time, the prime exanqple of a Secret Agent. He screwed up the Watergate break-in and was jailed for it. 

Secret Agents could do a lot to stop terrorism, especially by Moslem fanatics. I realize few of my subscribers are prepared to do big things at this time but I ll give a couple of examples of how real Secret A-qents could squash terrorism, plus the traffic in dope. 

The Moslem fanatics could be gotten to through their religion. Islam s roost holy place is the Kaaba in Mecca. A secret agent in a private plane could simply swoop down and drop a pig on the Kaaba. To Moslims and Jews, the noble pig, food of Vikings, is unclean. 

Even so. Secret Agents could intercept batches of heroin and cocain and lace it with ricin. Those who shot up or snorted the doctored dope would die. Depending on the area, Hollywood producers of the scummiest movies would go, inept politicians would make room for men and hopefully, a few Rock n Roll idols would bite the dust ... 

Those two operations must be left to better equipped and financed Secret Agents But you can think of many small ways you can act to preserve the best of our culture. ... 

Secret Agents don t necessarily have to work alone. You may need help in training, even though you must not let even your closest friends in on certain personal activities. The "need to know rule is a fRust for a Secret Agent. 

Establish a reputation for something as far from your hobby as possible. Boast of your prowess in martial arts or underwater basket weaving. But don t express any interest in Secret Agenting to anyone you j vw... 

The Twelfth Thing, to Remember. BW agents in particular, and even CW materials, can be delivered in ways that make it extremely difficult to identify the aggressor. When someone starts shooting atomic warheads at us, we will know within a matter of minutes at whom we should shoot back. BW materials, however, could be released by secret agents in ways which would make it very difficult to identify the country responsible. 

Drexler, M. 2002. Secret Agents The Menace of Emerging Infections. Washington, DC Joseph Henry Press. 

During the Second World War American secret agents had been issued with L pills , filled with cyanide. The suicide pills, designed to be taken as an alternative to interrogation and torture after capture, had one great disadvantage. Cyanide causes an agonizing death, and may take several minutes to act. The CIA, Colby said, had determined to find a faster and less painful poison. 

Like a number of other western secret agents, Frucht had become a spy because he was convinced that the Warsaw Pact planned to initiate World War Three. In the early sixties he had been... 

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