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The charming Ms. Cagan, if that is really she in the photograph, looks for all the world like Colonel Rosa Kleb (SMERSH agent defected to SPECTRE in "From Russia with Love") out for a night on the town. Take my advice, boys: don't get close enough that she can kick you.
This vile woman reminds us in a strikingly visual manner that no matter how bad we imagine our government to be, it is actually much, much worse. If we supposed that Cagan and her fellow functionaries in the Ministry of Mass Murder "represented" us in any way, shape, or form, we would suffer a very, very queasy feeling.