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...airport searches are not objectionable only because of horror-story arrests that result from them. A passenger whose luggage is X-rayed or opened, and who must either submit to a search of his person or walk through a metal detector, should be as outraged as a passenger dragged off to jail for having a joint in his toilet...
...money. He describes the CIA method of snaring an agent: "You start out by giving him money for his organization?lots of it?knowing that he will eventually take some for himself. When he gets dependent on it, you move in." Once hooked, the recruit is given a lie detector test to discover his weaknesses. Continues Agee: "Then it all hangs out. He can go on serving you as a spy for the rest of his life...
Walker Fillius, whose detector picked up electrons at a rate of 13 million per sec.-more than enough to penetrate several inches of steel: "We were biting our nails to see if the spacecraft would survive-and it did, just by a hair...
...Chicago, James Rochford was named the new police superintendent after the convictions of 48 cops in the past three years and the firing or forced resignations of 407 members of the force. Two weeks ago, after 72 top officers took lie detector tests, Rochford gave the force its biggest command shakeup ever; 60 of the highest-ranking men were moved up, down or around...
...said it was the "strangest kind of even that could happen" for a fire to begin in a closet, disabling the bell system before triggering a heat detector...