Comrade Col. Xin Zhu, obese spy and head of the Expedition Agency within the Sixth Bureau of the Ministry of State Security, suspects there is a C.I.A. mole burrowing into China's secrets.
That is why she was surprised recently when she discovered that while her credit scores with two of the three major credit reporting companies were comfortably over 720 -- the score that defines borrowers who will have the easiest time getting loans -- the third bureau was reporting her at 618, low enough to make her appear to be a poor credit risk.
The staff occupied a school building with the second bureau located in the classrooms and the third bureau in the gymnasiu, with the sports equipment pushed up against one wall.
Each bureau was under the day-to-day control of a lower ranking officer, upon activation the Third Bureau was headed by Colonel Ferdinand Auguste Pont, the Fourth Bureau by General Étienne Édouard Laffon de Ladébat and the president's liaison officer was General Pénélon.
The Fourth Bureau had a wide remit, with responsibilities for the management of military railways, motor vehicles, water transport, financial offices, post offices and telegraphy and its chief was sometimes called the (director of the rear [lines]).
In his first week back, in January , 2002 Kelly announced the creation of a counter-terrorism bureau — the first new bureau at the N.Y.P.D. in more than thirty years.
William F. Willoughby, a Johns Hopkins University graduate statistician and one of the early directors of the institution, helped the institute play an important role in the crafting of the 1921 legislation that led to the creation of the first U.S. Bureau of the Budget, the predecessor of the Office of Management and Budget.
Hunter-Gault set up the first Harlem bureau for the New York Times.
From 1983 to 1989 Mr. Kinzer was the first Times bureau chief in Managua, Nicaragua.
