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Teamed in tight-lipped pairs, a squad of determined men ranged the Pentagon last week. They were military gumshoes from the Air Force inspector general's office, sent out on a mission that was both sinister and ridiculous. "It's a damned comic opera,'' snapped a longtime Pentagon official. "In all my years in Government, I've never seen anything like this...
...bobby, and so are the other members of the I.P.O. (Impersonating Police Officers) Gang. In one week alone they pluck six plums off Sellers' thumb, and by week's end the poor punk is driven to a desperate remedy: set a cop to catch a cop. Unfortunately, Inspector Fred ("Nosy") Parker (Lionel Jeffries), who qualifies handily as the stupidest flatfoot seen on screen since Edgar Kennedy turned in his badge, couldn't catch a hangnail in a square mile of linsey-woolsey...
...script that runs more to whimsy than to wit, the inspector is given most of the good lines. "A Boche!" he bellows indignantly when Sellers, setting a trap for the I.P.O. Gang, suggests a German safecracker for a ?250,000 bank robbery. "See 'ere cahn't we give this job to a British lad?" But Sneaky Pete has the sneakiest line in the show. Preoccupied with his problems, he waffles into his flat one evening and whoops absentmindedly for his mistress...
...partially completed February report of sanitation inspector Wilfred B. Krabek says that a concentrated effort has eliminated both bacteria-infested tea and dirty kitchen conditions...
...inspector found that one cause of unsanitary conditions in the kitchens was defective equipment. The situation was improved when the kitchen replaced broken circulating pumps which were failing to wash the dishes properly...