Editorial / Immersed in the Bugging Arts
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"Editorial / Immersed in the Bugging Arts" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, .Jr. On April 23, at the request of Alton Frye, Washington Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.,...
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...Another commentator, incidentally a coin collector, demurred slightly by saying that for real ugliness one should look to the Latin American coinage of the eighteenth century, which depicted various Spanish monarchs with hooked noses, double chins, silly grins, bulging f o r e h e a d s , bulbous noses, sniffish glares, and prickly moods...
...Unfortunately, this caused some distress within the audience...
...After all, my unfortunate proclivity for calling him by his first name caused him enough anxiety...
...I would preclude his shouts, tears, and gasps, or any thought of lurching for an open window...
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...They see enemy agents where there are friends...
...Our art and architecture are little better...
...On April23, at the request o f Alton Frye, VZashington Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., I participated in a dialogue with Morton Halperin, Ph.D., director o f the Center for National Security Studies...
...It is entirely possible that today the reforming of our CIA comes too late...
...This is the flip side of the Gordon Liddy metaphysique...
...I was allowed a second, and I chose the amiable Aram Bakshian, author of the recently-published The Candidates-1980, which I commend to you...
...This theory posits that the way to stimulate economic growth is to allow government spending to march boldly ahead of r e v e n u e s , which will stimulate demand...
...The only result is bitternes.~ and the destruction of capital...
...The only hope may be vespers and the prayer chamber to petition for a quick end...
...Here I noted a sudden look of revulsion rush across Morton's generally obtuse countenance, and so I hurried to reassure him.] Just joshing, Mort...
...They all have a theory on who killed John Kennedy...
...Frank Greve, of the Pbiladelplsia Inquirer's Washington bureau, found out as much when he interviewed Marvin Sadik, director of the Smiths o n i a n ' s National P o r t r a i t Gallery and an adequate a r b i t e r of the national aesthetic...
...In a word, Keynesianism...
...That is monetarism, which could be characterized as the theory of "up-front money," explaining, for example, why many authors fail to deliver manuscripts when they are paid lavish sums in advance...
...Stephen Entin of the J o i n t Economic Committee of Congress tells me that, although Laffer gets all the credit, fiscal supply theory first emerged from the JEC...
...At that point they will "command" a wage, and the thing that they have made will result in a demand for an addition to the money stock equal to its value...
...Obviously not, ergo, the CIA is composed of scoundrels...
...Such a system has existed for hundreds of years at a s.tretch and it is called the gold standard...
...But Senator Proxmire construed the idea of Liberty on a coin as an insult to all American women and bid for a historical woman to be honored...
...20 units proposed...
...Maybe we should get rid of t h e m . " We, no doubt, would be perfectly willing to forget about this horrid monstrosity, this b a s t a r d spawn of flaming harpies and imbecilic pols, thisevil, sulfurous bit of specie...
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...By now we are all aware of CIA designs to thwart democracy in Cuba...
...He drove a 1973 Chevrolet...
...l~hat i l l were to say something jarring ? It could cause irreparable damage to his health...
...When I first was introduced to him he was earnestly regaling a tiny audience with tales about how he had suffered while fruitlessly coaching a notterribly-bright former director of the National Security Council on the ABM...
...It is a law which has served us in good stead, and, had it been given a chance, might have saved us from the Suzie Travesty...
...Print your new address and mail this form to The American Spectator...
...And think of how these scoundrels hounded our Russian friends...
...The NSC director under discussion was, of course, Kissinger...
...Joe Mysak EDITORIAL (continued from page 5) said that "angelo [that is to say, Mr...
...But it is distressing to note that in American folklore the CIA was supposedly composed of the cr?~me de la cr~me of American liberalism...
...One will never again view the world as ordinary people see it...
...Now it seems as if our coins are going to hell...
...They expend vast eloquence on behalf of time-honored victims of harassment, namely: various campus Galileos, political radicals, and a certain order of zany...
...or Augustus St...
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...Chief Engraver Frank Gasparro had an idea for a silver dollar, something uplifting and traditional, with the head of Liberty and an eagle...
...Legality about changing the design went out the window...
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...His telephones were tapped...
...Worst of all, the press continued to refer to him in such pejoratives as mobster, Mafia Don, and so forth...
...I t ' s one of the most hideous coins I've ever seen...
...A lesser scholar noted the c o i n ' s alarming resemblance to the aluminum tokens of Shell's "Mr...
...It is just another example of the uglification of America...
...I am glad finally to have an opportunity to express my views on the world of the spy...
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...he protested, delivering a short lecture on premature familiarity/I certainly had little hope o f bringing Morton around...
...The reverse of the coin is the same as the old, slightly bizarre r e v e r s e of the Eisenhower dollar: an eagle landing on the moon...
...All attempts by governments to create jobs, whether in this country by transfer payments or in the Third World by foreign aid--in short, by the coerced redistribution of cash-are bound to fail in the vast majority of cases...
...If you have a malefic nation you will have a malefic agency...
...The fourth and final stage is now beginning to be discussed serio u s l y - t h e theory of monetary demand...
...Every time I think of what the CIA tried to do to Fidel's beard, to his cigars, and to his longevity--well, I feel sick inside...
...I would attempt to ingratiate myself to him...
...Bruno passed away on March 21, one day before the ,~ THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1980 anniversary of Harry Truman's 1947 signing of Executive...
...He shared their lifestyle they said, dressing and eating~ conservatively...
...To think of Morton having spent over a decade pondering the problems of the bugging arts has left me in a melancholy frame of mind...
...The prioritists can argue over that one...
...Now comes monetary demand, and it in turn is the logical corollary to supply-side economics...
...And they see friends where there are enemy agents...
...Its purpose THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1980 5 S P E C T A T O R ' S J O U R N A L The Mother of Appall It is the Rosemary's Baby of coins...
...Even the Indian penny and the Buffalo nickel are distinctly American in a handsomely rugged sort of way...
...Adam Yarmolinsky, after delivering a red, white, and blue eulogy to Morton, chastised the audience for being against Morton, a perception that struck me as exaggerated albeit wondrously enlightening...
...This is possibly the most troubling question of the whole episode...
...Our CIA may actually have infected the KGB with our rampant d i s t r u s t f u l n e s s and our ceaseless intrigues...
...Who knows how many ordinary Americans have been victimized by our government's snoopers and second-story civil servants...
...And so I leave it to others to devote their lives to protracted meditations on it...
...By God, the thing is at least as popular as the 1976 $2 bill...
...After that, God knows...
...Will Mother Jones or the Progressive pause to memorialize him...
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...Of course the cosmos of the intelligence agent is not only a cosmos abounding with illusory figures and illusory struggles, but it is also a world of real danger...
...I am honored to take part in such a typically American orgy and before such a typically American audience...
...Then.came-stage three, much discussed recently in the press: fiscal Tom Bethell is The American Spect a t o r ' s Washington columnist and Washington editor o f Harper's...
...Yet he was constantly under surveillance...
...The demand fi~r money, it turns out, is best measured by . . . gold...
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...Anyone who thinks the bugging arts can be practiced in a primly legal setting has pored over the matter too long...
...First came the theory of fiscal demand, the .word "fiscal" in economics referring to the taxing a n d / o r spending power of the state...
...Incidentally, they rarely have a theory on who really shot George Wallace...
...Think of it this way...
...When Lillian Hellman made a similar gesture the American intelligentsia made her into a hero...
...DDD L i b e r t y and Security--my guess is there are as many treatises on this subject in our bookstores as on corporate infamies, dietary magic, and sexual esoterica...
...Leslie H. Gelb (formerly one of our President's foreign policy geniuses) claimed I confused him...
...coins: the classic 1892 Barber series of dimes, quarters, and halves...
...E D I T O R I A L IMMERSED IN THE BUGGING ARTS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, .Jr...
...Angelo Bruno...
...Bruno's neighbors realized his fine humane qualities...
...Let me begin by assuring you that conditions in America are in a very sorry way...
...Why could the Agency not have been on the right side of world revolution for a change...
...Gaudens' 1907 eagle and double eagle...
...He beamed, showing once again his splendid sense of humor.] Is it possible that the CIA was, years ago, subverted by an arcane arm of the Chamber of Commerce...
...Earl C. Ravenal said 1 left him "depressed...
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...They even made her into an important playwright, despite all the evidence to the contrary...
...Plans vary between pushing the coin, suspending it indefinitely, and turning out just enough each calendar year to continue the series...
...He came to my graduation party and always said hello to me, like I was somebody...
...Bruno died full of years and honors...
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...The donors organize themselves into tax revolts and the recipients are strongly inclined to shirk...
...At any rate, what follows is the transcript of my remarks at that hLrtoric Washington meeting...
...Money should be thought of as ex, isting on the demand side of life, not in Friedmanite terms of supply...
...I would try to be friends...
...In preparing for the extravaganza, I read much of the rascal's oeuvre, and, truth be known, there is not much there to keep the reader awake...
...The saga of American interferences with political liberty is a shocking one and one that quite possibly will eventuate in the world's last clap of thunder...
...Once one begins to think as an intelligence adept one is doomed never again to think as a normal man...
...I have heard of things more weird...
...But it was not always meant to be so...
...It looks like something you get in a Cracker Jack box...
...c) American judges ought to be able to enjoin American spies to undertake covert operations abroad, despite the fact that such operations contravene the laws of foreign countries...
...They have the largest foreign service in the world, which is evidence in itself of their peaceful designs...
...Suzie beat out such beauties as Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt for the honors...
...Very well and good--our coinage compares favorably with that of the latter-day banana republics...
...According to this theory, a reduction in high marginal (as opposed to average) tax r a t e s will stimulate production, becau~;e the effect of such tax rates is to deter economic activity...
...Some will perceive a species of typically American moral arrogance in legislation that would empower our judges or our congressmen to approve illegal actions in foreign countries...
...His police record was practically without blemish...
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...Let ours be an example for all the other intelligence agencies of the world to emulate...
...These were not the intellectual progeny of Bob_ Taft...
...Gasparro scrutinized the documentary evidence--two photographs-more closely: "She had awful bushy eyebrows...
...Member FDIC) PASSPORT POUCH prevents embarrassIng pocket search in front of impatient customs officers and policemen...
...Both have special rates for prisoners...
...Is it possible that the KGB is now wholly out of the control of the Politburo and performing mischief...
...Yarmolinsky's delusion of persecution, /sis seeming paranoia, is characteristic of these bogus libertarians...
...If demand creates supply, then money creates labor...
...Bruno] was a dynamite man...
...Our CIA can be more effective, less expensive, and more polite...
...He was 69 and his only jail term did not come until 1973, and that jugging came about only because he had refused to answer questions before the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation...
...Love of country should be better rewarded and less dangerous to one's spiritual welt-being...
...Let us recap briefly...
...Its record speaks for itself...
...Intelligence is a shadowy realm, and those who live in it or who ponder it generally come to invest enormous time and significance in shadows...
...What a tragedy that would b e But the cosmos of the bugging arts is a strange place...
...And why should t h e r e be...
...Nonetheless, in Washington he is a 24-carat notable...
...This is known as inflation...
...Not four years have elapsed since the Ford tyranny, yet the Carter administration has begun thumping for a renaissance of the police state in all its hellish trappings...
...I am in total accord with those who say that our intelligence agencies will be more efficient and less expensive if they are more open, and I should like to add, they would be more caring, more compassionate, too...
...Or Prime Minister Heath's United Kingdom...
...reduces chances of loss or theft...
...A civilized government will not, by widely promulgated law, enjoin its bizarre agents of intrigue to break the laws of legally constituted governments no matter how exigent it is that their laws be broken, their secrets pilfered...
...He died of gunshot wounds and a broken heart...
...Yet what was our response...
...But is this enough...
...Why the hell was a man like this, a man with a cleaner police record than many a U.S...
...When something is made, then and only then does there come into existence the demand for its monetary counterpart...
...I would not mention recent history or the present pickle we are in...
...I found this fellow utterly preposterous...
...When writing to us about your subscription, always attach your address label or print your name and address exactly as they appear on your address label...
...The same holds true of the intelligence intellectual...
...And who shot Angelo Bruno...
...Where was their evidence...
...Your record is clean...
...Our ability to repel attack does not depend on secrecy...
...They are forever tugging on suspicious beards...
...Here at last "things" take precedence over money, supply over demand...
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...We destabilized...
...What for...
...Here is a government fc)unded on the noblest ideals...
...Morton's world is a novel one...
...Morton has spent nearly a decade studying intelligence agencies in the modern American context, and this is what he has come up with...
...Bruno, born abroad, rose to become one of the most prosperous vending machine salesmen ever heard of, nonetheless the FBI would not leave him alone...
...America landed the first humans on the moon...
...The People are resisting Suzie, but who can tell for how long they will keep it up...
...The Soviets fill their foreign missions with men expert in every area of benign human endeavor...
...Here is a blind spot...
...Its agents hounded him all his adult life...
...There is damned little left...
...These are impressive, artistic, and glorious coins...
...Nobody, not even the government, knows how long this abomination will be visited upon the Republic...
...You know something happened there...
...What was I to say to such a fellow...
...V/by L a mere scrivener, was asked to indulge in such a high-toned chin wag with one of America's foremost pedagogues of the bugging arts remains as much a myste~, to me as Morton's amazing influence in this area...
...We eavesdropped...
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...That Ls about the whole of it...
...If our President is by God's grace re-elected he could do much good by replacing Admiral Turner with Ambassador Young...
...If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then a nation's coinage is the window to its heart, and that is what makes the Suzie so disturbing...
...If you have a good nation you will probably have an agency that generally undertakes good...
...Thus the question arises: Is the United States a good nation...
...Looking for friends, I could elaborate on this, but enough is enough...
...Champion: Arthur Laffer...
...Let the Brits and the Israelis marvel at the achievement...
...Long before the cries from the Third World roused the languorous consciences of the West, the Soviets were generously endowing, and sometimes actually building, hospitals, roads, irrigation projects, sports stadiums, and miliaary bases...
...Our government's cruel history of harassing Angelo Bruno can be replicated many times not only domestically but also in the realm of international relations, where it not only puts the lie to our noble ideals but also c r e a t e s danger and instability...
...This is because the very existence of capital so readily available for fragmentation and consumption in itself refutes the need for labor...
...Rabbis, Preachers, Popes, & Ayatollahs...
...For sheer beauty, one might as well imagine Betty F r i e d a n ' s cheery mug on a U.S...
...No sales tax...
...According to a law passed on September 26, 1890, changes in designs of U.S...
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...Consider their foreign aid programs in Eastern Europe...
...Kissinger he beholds with a bizarre obsessiveness that even the late Viennese quack would have found unique...
...Yet t cannot end on this sanguine note...
...I t is rare that a policy decision involving money has inspired such contempt," notes a canny editorial writer of the Boston Globe in a rare moment of whimsy...
...The subject of our discourse was to be "Liberty and Security: A Dialogue on Domestic Values and Foreign Imperatives...
...Gasparro did his best, but his first engraving was "too pretty" to suit the coven of flaming harpy feminists and loon congressmen in charge of the coin's final design...
...The story is not a pretty one...
...In two words, the gospel according to Milton Friedman...
...Though the Mint produced 750 million of the coins in 1979, more than in 28 },ears of the Morgan series, they circulate no more than do Brasher doubloons...
...Most turn away in disgust...
...stick to your afterlife,--whatever it Is, and Brainbeau will stick to his...
...But I see this as an audacious step in the right direction...
...His is a province that sparks my concern, and it pleases me that so much of the great literature of recent years has dealt with these personages...
...It is logical to argue, then, that the overall quantity of money can elicit a given quantity of work, or goods...
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...Bring it out into the open, I say...
...They are forever seeing antennae rising from the olives of nearby martinis...
...Also holds currency, keys, etc...
...I am sorry, that I cannot provide Morton's...
...Is it not possible that we have contaminated the KGB, turning it into a rogue elephant, too...
...On almost any other subject be is a vacuum...
...In sum and in fine, he seems to believe the following: a) the world has not changed much since 1776though as to what things were like then he remains unillumined (he did, under questioning from me, claim that he has spectral communications from James Madison, this being either one of his seemingly suicidal attempts at humor or an attempt to establish his credentials as an expert on the Bill of Rights...
...e) America has committed infamies of astounding magnitude...
...A few laugh...
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...But compare the Suzie with some other representative U.S...
...What is equally distressing is that our civil libertarians are not always as vigilant as one might expect...
...b) the CIA has much in common with the Department of Agriculture and should be held to similar standards and adminL~tered accordingly (here there was no attempt at humor" he really meant it...
...We frustrated the Soviets' every good deed...
...Even during his funeral the relentless FBI was ever present...
...Our postage stamps have long been jokes...
...How does one account for it...
...Legally, the Suzie was from the womb untimely ripped...
...All are s o u g h t - a f t e r collector's items...
...Consider the late Mr...
...My vaunted research staff has come up with some of the names of these worthies: Tom Braden, Norman O. Brown, Ralph Bunche, William Bundy, Julia Child, William Sloane Coffin, John Fairbank, Herbert Marcuse, John Gardner, Arthur Goldberg, Roger Hilsman, William Langer, Robert Sherwood, Joseph Cisco, Arthur Schlesinger, and Morton Halperin...
...Hence the theory of monetary supply as the prime determinant of GNP...
...Women shriek, babies cry, even the strong-stomached are prone to attacks of nausea at the sight of it...
...The only thing on his mind aside from a plethora of gossip about American atrocities and a handful of absurd regulations for intelligence gathering is Henry Kissinger...
...As that great Burkean Senator from the West, Frank Church, once so eloquently observed, our CIA became a rogue elephant...
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...surely we can create a truly moral and upright intelligence agency...
...The coin is an atrocity," said Sadik...
...Most likely it is the fuel for their obsession with intelligence gathering...
...C e r t ; f i n l y the time has come to reform this shadowy, diabolical mob...
...They entail taking away from some people the money they were paid at the end of the day and then giving it to others at the beginning of the day (in the belief that only money can "push" labor...
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...1 would describe the world in Morton's terms, and express dismay over the evanescing state of cur civil liberties...
...As Morton has said: "We are an enormously powerful and secure nation...
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...These were American liberals, graduates of some of our finest Ivy League schools, friends of the Sierra Club, viewers of educational television, Volvo drivers...
...But consider the astounding way we have treated the Soviet Union...
...One Mr...
...80 acre tract already acquired...
...A nation that, like ours, came to life via revolution, but one that has actually.been genuinely instrumental in bringing progress and peace to the world...
...the Suzie became a cause cdl~bre...
...Why did they never destabilize France's Spain, for instance...
...His house was shadowed...
...People are best paid at the end of the day, after the work is done...
...It goes like this...
...This theory soon elicited its logical corollary, monetarism, which is impticii in Keynesianism...
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...Why our intelligence agencies-and bear in mind we have more than one--harassed the Soviets in this way I cannot say...
...The supply of goods creates the demand for money...
...The question of motives I shall leave to my friend Morton...
...As I have said, this world of spooks and intelligence intellectuals is a world unto itself...
...the Morgan and Peace dollars...
...economics has unfolded with a perfect symmetry, in four stages...
...How about the prisoners of endless FBI surveillance...
...The Commission of Fine Arts got into the act, adding: "We would like the likeness to be more exact...
...Those who study the doings of spies almost never take leave from their cerebrations with their sense of reality intact...
...And it is a world that will always exist more or less outside the laws of civilized governments...
...Those who like to resist new ideas on the grounds that they are old will have a lot of fun with this one...
...and/) spies are people, too...
...The Susan B. Anthony dollar is an embarrassment and absurdity...
...You cannot use money to "push" things into exis-' tence...
...If things are allowed to "pull" into existence the money needed 4o buy them, then the correct amount of money will appear...
...Even so, there will be no dirges played, no obituaries written, no death c e r t i f i c a t e s signed...
...Bruno, too, was a hero in his way...
...congressman, constantly under surveillance...
...none are even remotely laughable...
...But even if an intelligence agency is unique, it is still affected by some of the same laws that affect other bureaucracies...
...Our culture is full of perversities like this...
...Order 9835, authorizing loyalty investigations of federal employees...
...coins cannot be made oftener than once every 25 years...
...Any government agency will to one degree of" another reflect the genius of the nation, the character of its people...
...What right have we to shadow the miracle-workers of the Soviet Union...
...What the hell gets into us...
...he has invested years in his obsessions...
...Sometimes they even sent their fabled agricultural experts to urge forth the corn...
...For in the international world of intelligence we may have gone too far...
...On the other hand, as the last decade has shown, the attempt to "push" an economy with money created for that purpose (monetarism) tendsto result in an imbatance--a shortage of goods relative to money...
...Was ever a Samaritan more ill-used...
...The Soviets have not been timid in defending liberty and progressive ways...
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...Money can only be "pulled" into existence by the goods that money can buy...
...The Susan B. Anthony dollar is indeed the devil's work, the source of everything discouraging in the country...
...Next, of course, will be the paper currency, some of the last artful engraving being done on the planet...
...They see secret agents where there are no secret agents...
...His neighbors remembered him as a kind, warm man whose friendship they cherished...
...It corrupts all that come into contact with it...
...coin--or Bella Abzug's...
...I think she lost her teeth or had a lot of trouble with them as she got older...
...Please attach the address label from the most recent Issue of your American Spectator in the space below...
...d) there need not be great tension between freedom and secumty...
...Thus, if we can set up a system whereby the amount of money that is allowed to come into existence is regulated by an observed demand for money, then inflation will cease to exist...
...Is it possible that the KGB is now motivated by an inordinate fear of capitalism and that it is now paranoid about us...
...Gasparro had at his original design with a meat-axe, and the results were hailed as art...
...But how about your less visible victims...
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...Our hope is that the design can be refined to include the more distinct facial characteristics of Miss Anthony...
...And imagine what abominations would have been committed by the Agency had the conservatives gotten hold of it...
...According to Malcolm Muggeridge, "Writers of thrillers tend to gravitate to the Secret Service as surely as the mentally unstable become psychiatrists, or the impotent p o r n o g r a p h e r s . " This pretty much squares with my view of the bugging arts...
...supply, otherwise known as supplyside economics...
...Some people stare at it in wide-eyed terror and disbelief...
...Why was he so thoughtlessly calumniated as a mobster by the press...
...Well, there you are...
...According to historical sources, Susan B. Anthony was "a grim Old Gal with manly a i r , " " a f r i g h t . " One author declared: " I have seen scarecrows that did credit to f a r m e r s ' boys' ingenuity, but never one better calculated to scare all birds, b e a s t s , and human beings...
...Yet our CIA victimizes them with its gadgetry and its b ru tes...
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...Thus, my path was preordained...
...Now, Gasparro is no novice: His previous credits include the r e v e r s e of the Lincoln penny and the Kennedy half, as well as the Eisenhower dollar...
...President Coin Game," which were given away in the vintage years of happy motoring...
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