Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parachuting behind enemy lines, breaking codes, forging documents and blowing up bridges. The graying, mostly prosperous-looking men and women are veterans of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency. The occasion is their annual bash, the William J. Donovan Award Dinner...
...attendance at this Donovan dinner, the twelfth since 1962, is unusually large. The crowd of more than 400 includes not only OSS veterans and friends and family members but eight Senators, FBI Director William Webster and two wartime spymasters who went on to head the CIA, Richard Helms and William Colby. The old espionage hands come partly out of nostalgia for a simpler age of spying, before cold wars and dirty tricks scandals and congressional oversight committees. There is also a perceptible closing of the ranks behind the nation's now-beset intelligence establishment...
...After dinner, the old spooks are still wondering what went wrong with the intelligence establishment. "Well," says Maryland Housewife Mary Furman, who interrogated prisoners during the war with the help of exiles from Poland and other Nazi-occupied countries, "we were civilians." She stops, hearing herself sounding holier than thou, and reflects quietly, "We never beat prisoners. Of course, the Poles were standing right there, and they were happy to oblige, and the prisoners knew it. But we never had any trouble. We never had to do anything." Bill Duff, the OSS man in Algiers, has another explanation...
Governor Brendan Byrne attended the President's dinner. Still, there were notable absentees. None of the Democratic Senate leaders attended...
...most bizarre killings of a head of state in history. Late last week President Park Chung Hee, 61, strongman ruler of the Republic of South Korea since 1961, was shot at a dinner party by the chief of his own intelligence service in what was first described by a government spokesman as an "accident." Later, officials revealed that it was a well-planned assassination...