Montana Smith
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The word is only used once during the 1978 Story Conference, and it's George employing it in the Hitchcock sense:
GEORGE LUCAS : ...essentially he ends up in Cairo or some exotic middle-east area, which is where most of it takes place...He's given the name of a man who knows about the situation, an agent. He goes into this very sleazy Casablanca type club and makes contact with this agent. The agent is a girl...he's trying to get information from this girl. Finally she gives it to him, about where the Germans are. We had thought of giving him another piece of information, a MacGuffin, that he could take with him to try to analyze.