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- <text id=93TT2458>
- <title>
- Feb. 08, 1993: Spy Killer
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 17
- Spy Killer
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>An unknown gunman assaults cars at the entrance to the CIA
- </p>
- <p> All that witnesses remember is a young man of medium build
- with dark hair who wore a tan jacket--and carried a
- semiautomatic rifle. He emerged from a brown compact car as
- commuters waited during an otherwise perfect, sunlit
- Monday-morning rush hour to turn left into the Central
- Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Firing
- in bursts at close range, the man walked up the line of cars,
- then down, killing two CIA employees and wounding three others.
- In the chaos of shattered glass, screams and blood, he returned
- to his car and drove away. Was it a calculated hit or the demented
- act of a lonely psychopath? Police took all the usual steps:
- examining fingerprints on one victim's car, retrieving a spent
- shell casing, checking local gun shops for recent purchases of
- semiautomatic weapons and stopping commuters along Dolley
- Madison Boulevard in hopes of finding further witnesses. At
- week's end the killer and his motive remained a mystery despite
- the best efforts of federal and local investigators and support
- personnel.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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