In America Widmerpool becomes something of a figurehead among youth protest movements; there are suggestions that his earlier problems may have resulted from a CIA plot.

As Irish people are given naturally to speculating over 'CIA plots', their excitement when real CIA security men arrived to safeguard the President can be imagined.

Although some sources claim that CIA plots ended when Lumumba was captured, that is not stated or shown in the CIA records.

"Not if you adhere to the Communist mania of seeing a CIA plot under every rock."

As the result of successful KGB operation, the TASS state news agency issues a sensational news bulletin exposing the CIA plot.

Other teams of agents were already working worldwide to learn if what happened to the Red October was a CIA plot or the plot of some other intelligence service.

"It is CIA plot," came a woman's voice behind Chiun.

He starts off parallel but then wanders off left and right, into international terrorism and CIA plots and complicated conspiracy theories.

Anderson also alleged that Lyndon B. Johnson covered-up the conspiracy for fear that public knowledge of the CIA plots would trigger war with the Soviet Union.

Others have described him as telling Risen about a backfired CIA plot against Iran in the 1990s.