The Leica Duovids come off by comparison as something that a secret agent in a BMW would use to gaze across a canyon at an evil lair.

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Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, Sullivan graduated from Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire and joined the Secret Service as a special agent in Detroit in 1983.

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The father had also contacted people explaining that he was a secret agent who was leaving as part of a witness protection programme.

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He can see her reflection in the bathroom mirror, the headset wrapped around her ear as if she were an air-traffic controller or a Secret Service agent.

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