[Spooks] and a book???

Fri, 7 Feb 2003 20:39:50 -0500

There are probably lots of intelligence books out there, although some
authors may have a political axe to grind.  Someone studying near me today
at the UMass-Boston library was reading The CIA's Greatest Hits.  I suspect
it's not successes but rather assassinations.  I decided against reading a
copy of Eye Spy and telling her it was "just a professional journal."
73 de Dan Malloy

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> Hey spooksters; anyone familiar with CIA, Inc? It's by F.W. Rustmann, Jr.
> who was with the CIA's Clandestine Service.
> It's about espionage and business intelligence but he talks about more
> general intelligence works and tricks of the trade; he happens to explain
> how numbers broadcasts are used, with the example of a South Vietnamese
> recruit who had to listen to regular SW broadcasts which "consisted of the
> reading of groups of five numbers ...then later, using a system of false
> subtraction and a miniaturized code book, he would decode and read his
> message."
>
> 73s, Sue
>
> Sue Hickey, Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada
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> Fellow SPOOKster's:
>
> Jumping in on this late, but...
>
> Let's not forget Jonathan Demme's tribute to the '70's CB craze -- (also,
I
> believe, his directoral debut) the quirkily funny "Citizen's Band,"
> retitled
> "Handle With Care."  CB is the star of this movie, about a group of
> strangers
> who have relationships with each other via CB but don't meet until the end
> of
> the movie.
>
> The funniest subplot involves a trucker who has a wife on each end of his
> cross-country run.  They meet each other finally -- with hiliarious
results!
> The main character, played by "American Graffiti" alumnus Paul Le Mat
(Candy
> Clark, another one, is also in it) is a REACT monitor who rescues this
same
> trucker when he hears his distress call on channel 9.  He gets disgusted
> with
> all the non-emergency traffic he hears from newbie yahoos (including his
own
> girlfriend, who has taken on a sexy alter ego via CB), and by the end of
the
> movie, heads out with a baseball bat to "clean up the band," destroying
> offending operator's equipment.
>
> At the climax, all the previously anonymous CB'ers come out from behind
> their
> handles and fantasy identities to rescue him.  I think that's what
> happens...it's been a long time since I've watched it!
>
> And, of course, there's lots of CB action in those horrible "Smokey and
the
> Bandit" movies.
>
> There was also a movie with John Travolta that came out a few years ago.
I
> can't remember the title, but Travolta plays a man with a brain tumor that
> for awhile gives him special powers.  Forrest Whitaker plays a fat,
lonely,
> painfully shy ham radio operator, shown with his rig a couple of
> times...almost his only human contact.  Too bad one of the few movies to
> feature a ham operator portrays him as a pathetic loser.  Not the way to
> attract people to the hobby!
>
> --Mary Villano
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