WHODUNIT?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605740060-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: June 7, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/18: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605740060-7
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Trends
WASHINGTON POST
7 June 1985
The scene: The Center for Alter=
native Defense,. a little-known think
tank somewhere outside the Beltway.
The players:. KGB agents, CIA
agents,. Cuban colonels, Pentagon li-
aison officers, an about-to=be-dis:
graced. senator,, his wife and,,.admin-.
istrative aide,. two brothers-one sub-
stituting himself for his brother and
killing him. . t
The situation: By the time the feds
came around, a number of people had
blown the lid off the potboiler.
Another typical weekend in Wash-
ington? Actually, it was a typical
made-to-order mystery weekend, this
one at the Jefferson Hotel on April
19-21, and everyone-suspects, vic-
tims, . the culprit and the paying
sleuths-couldn't have been happier
about the whole faked deal, put on by
Larty Redmond in, conjunction-- with-.
the Source Theater Company.
What was-and is-for real is that
mystery thrillers are big business
across Americas Television shows,.
books, 'movies, plays and, more and
more:: frequently, murder-mystery,
evenings and weekends are cashing in
on the phenomenon.
Parker Brothers has come out with.
a video version of its ever-popular
Clue board. game (15 million to 20
million sets. sold since. 1949), and. a
$10 million movie, also titled "Clue" -
and featuring all the familiar eharac=
ter/suspects, is due for release around
Christmas..
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/18: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605740060-7