Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Witness Lattimore had come to answer what he called McCarthy's "base and contemptible" charges that he was a top Soviet agent. But it was a little difficult, he declared, to decide just what he now stood accused of. The first time he had been named by McCarthy he had been let off as a simple "pro-Communist." Then he had become "the top Russian espionage agent," as suddenly had been demoted again to a "bad policy risk...
...discovered that he was called the "Happy Heinie," the "Daredevil Dutchman," and the "Wild Teuton"-detained him on arrival, took his shoes apart looking for messages, and scrubbed his chest with lemon juice in the hope of developing secret writing. When he returned to the U.S. a British agent followed...
...Professor & the Dump Heap. When the headlines fade away, it will probably be clear that Professor Owen Lattimore (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is neither a Russian spy nor a Communist, and that his accuser, Senator Joseph McCarthy, is an irresponsible demagogue. But the fact that Lattimore is no Soviet agent does not clear him of having had, in less dramatic ways, a disastrous influence on the foreign policy of his country...
...youth home in Wannsee until after their concert. At week's end, three more choir members, all minors, had gone back to Dresden. Also back in Dresden was Business Manager Pulst, about whom Choir-Leaders Schueck and Niebisch had a sharp suspicion: he was a Soviet agent, they thought, had deliberately failed to get West German bookings for the choir, had engineered the arrest of the two wives. The rest of the choir was flown to Frankfurt, where they will give a thanksgiving concert, train for a foreign tour. Standing in the bright sun at Frankfurt airport...
...State Department has been the far too ready acceptance of one of his standards for condemning people. The Senator outlined this standard on March 30, when, in talking about Owen Lattimore, he said: "the all important thing to be determined is not so much whether Lattimore was a Russian Agent. . . but to what extent our far eastern policy (as influenced by Lattimore) has paralleled the Communist Party objectives. . . the Lattimore line follows that line practically 100 percent...