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...Careful gave Carrot a battery-powered bug in a walnut-covered container to match the bookcase. It was 13 in. long, 1½ in. wide and ½ in. deep and contained a microphone and a transmitter that could be activated by an outside high-frequency signal to broadcast conversations from deep inside State Department offices. No sooner was the meeting over than Mrkva gingerly handed the bug to waiting FBI agents...
...Bookcase Bug. FBI men carefully counterspied on each of 48 rendezvous between Mrkva and the Czechs, soon discovered that the Reds had counterspies tailing Mrkva's meetings. Nevertheless, the FBI managed to counter-counterspy on the counterspies and the spies without ever being observed...
Puzzled by its sudden silence, Opatrny told Mrkva that the Czechs wondered why the bug had worked perfectly for 20 minutes and then stopped. Mrkva said he had accidentally dropped the mechanism. Opatrny then ordered him to get it back since the Czechs hoped to plant a similar device in the office of Under Secretary George Ball. Said he: "Everyone wants to know what is wrong with...
...some 11.5 million inhabitants. Some traveled by plane, some by Land Rover, others on horseback, foot and even skis. Each carried a 33-question census form and a language guide in eight tongues as disparate as Serbo-Croatian and Maltese. When they dealt with the "abos" -Australia's bug-eating, boomerang-throwing aborigines-census takers had to use sign language after they had finally discovered their quarry in mid-"walkabout." Abos, after all, spend their lives on the prowl in the wastes beyond the Great Dividing Range, running down witchetty grubs and wallabies from Birdsville to Alice Springs. When...
...Scouting today suffers from an ill image. The very name-Boy Scout-is practically a synonym for sissy, goody-goody, square. "Be Prepared" has degenerated to a Tom Lehrer double-entendre; the descendants of Lord Baden-Powell are dimly imagined by contemporary cynics to be a rustic army of bug-eyed idealists. Scripture that commanded pious respect when the Boy Scouts were chartered by Congress 50 years ago now seems laughably quaint. "If you notice a Scout badge on a boy's coat lapel," the Boy Scout Handbook still bugles, "give him the Scout salute. He may need your...