Word: courier
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...long since confessed and pleaded guilty. U.S. Attorney Gerald A. Gleeson limited himself to a dispassionate summation of the prisoner's career as a Soviet agent. In the light of the week's news, it was a flesh-creeping tale of how Gold had acted as courier between British Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs and a Soviet consulate clerk named Anatoli Antonovich Yakovlev. Fuchs had been privy to the deepest U.S. atom secrets, and Gold had carried a treasure of horror in his soft hands...
...echo of a 1918 statement that has become a part of Marine Corps legend. Moving up to Belleau Wood at the head of a company of marines, Captain Lloyd Williams was overtaken by a courier, told that the order of the French area commander was to retreat. "Retreat, hell," snapped Captain Williams, "we just got here," and took his troops into battle...
...Gold recounted. "The man inside seemed startled, but he seemed reassured when I gave him the recognition signal: 'I bring regards from Helen,' and asked how his wife was." "Helen" had been Brothman's old contact (and was, in fact, Elizabeth Bentley, then a Communist courier and now another witness against Brothman...
Fairfield, a former CRIMSON managing editor, now writes a newspaper column in Washington. Braaten is now a State Department courier...
...Inverness Courier rallied to Nessie's defense. It denounced publication of the naval officer's account, added: "[A newspaper] must surely have a low opinion of its readers when it expects them to swallow such a story as this...