Reporters: The Mollenhoff Cocktail

The story was right out of TV's spy-spoofing Get Smart! When a top CIA man named Hans V. Tofte advertised his Washington basement apartment for rent, another CIA man named Kenneth Slocum answered the ad and then grimly snitched that he had spied classified documents lying around Tofte's pad. In turn, Tofte grimly complained at the office that he had just been doing some homework on the papers—and then mentioned that $19,000 worth of his wife's jewelry had vanished after Slocum's visit.

Predictably, the CIA looked daggers and spread its cloak over all....

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