Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Japan deposed the Korean Emperor and openly annexed his kingdom, Syngman Rhee returned to Korea as a Y.M.C.A. worker, doing a bit of political agitation on the side. The Japanese, who distrusted all Christians, were doubly distrustful of Syngman Rhee. They assigned as his permanent shadow a police agent named Yoon Piung-hi, one of the most notorious of the "hunting dogs," i.e., Koreans in the Japanese secret service. A specialist in a kind of primitive psychological warfare, Yoon Piung-hi assiduously spread rumors about Rhee. On one occasion Rhee spent the night away from home, sleeping...
...changed Rhee's character, left him bitter and disillusioned. Convinced that most of the world was hostile to his cause, he fell back upon a small circle of friends and advisers. Chief among them was Washington Lawyer John W. Staggers, who had for many years acted as an agent of the Korean government. Staggers handled Rhee's income, which consisted largely of contributions from Koreans in the U.S. When the contributions were small, many Washingtonians believe, Staggers added to them from his own pocket...
Battlefield was clearly Jockey Eddie Arcaro's favorite, too. He had ridden Battlefield in most of his starts, and before the Futurity, richest and most prestigious of two-year-old tests, he was unmistakably confident. (His agent, Bones La Boyne, explained: "When the money's there, Eddie's there...
Adding to Thornton's statement, F.B.I. Special Agent Gordon stated that "over a period of years, there have been claims that the F.B.I. was making an investigation at Harvard. But if the matter is investigated carefully, it will be seen that these claims have been entirely unfounded...
Lattimore, a sharp critic of the Chiang Kai-Shek Government, was cleared of the charge that he was a top Communist agent by a Senate Foreign Relations sub-committee...