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- <text id=90TT2798>
- <title>
- Oct. 22, 1990: Heavy Surveillance And Cheese
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 22, 1990 The New Jazz Age
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 23
- Heavy Surveillance And Cheese
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- <body>
- <p>By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
- </p>
- <p> After Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi diplomats
- and their families stationed in the U.S. began to notice that
- someone was watching them. Following a State Department order
- that Iraq recall 36 diplomats and their families, one carload
- of evicted Iraqis got lost on the way to the airport; up popped
- the FBI agents who had been shadowing them to provide helpful
- directions. Later, while waiting for their flight, some restive
- and hungry Iraqi children were treated to pizza by attentive
- G-men. These were not spontaneous acts of kindness. The FBI was
- sending a message to Saddam that his people could not move
- without being monitored by Uncle Sam. Bureau officials believe
- this breathe-down-their-necks strategy may keep Iraq and its
- sympathizers from hatching terrorist plots in the U.S.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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