Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George (code name: "Rector") was not so active as his wife, mostly gathered information on refugees. As a team, they collected information on the "sexual and drinking habits" of U.S. personnel stationed in Austria so that the Russians could use it to blackmail Americans...
...Dulles has traveled through and around at least three different reasons why he thinks the ban is necessary and justified. Last week the State Department chafed the American press by reviving, as its justification, Dulles' explanation that the sending of newsmen into Red China would amount to paying blackmail for the release of eight U.S. prisoners there. "We will not let newsmen go while [the Red Chinese] are holding our citizens illegally," Deputy Under Secretary Robert Murphy told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey pursued the point: If the question of American prisoners were...
...There is an underground method of dealing with this girl which rivals those operating in occupied countries during the war," said Republican Labor M.P. Harry Diamond, a Catholic, in Northern Ireland's House of Commons. "There have been evasion, lies, attempted blackmail and an obvious conspiracy." While police of the United Kingdom searched for her, a Protestant leader said: "There is no official underground to hide girls like her, but because so many people believe in freedom of worship there are many families who would be willing to hide...
...officer can tell right from Wong but knows he must rely on Wong's support. A report exposing Wong's web of corruption and threatening the whole delicate balance of power is drafted by a British police officer. Because of Milty's intervention there follow intrigue, blackmail and suicide. Careers are wrecked. Things will never be the same again at the club. But Mr. Wong will appear in the next Honors List, and Milty, though "bowler-hatted" out of his country's service, will carry on as a shady auto salesman in Beirut...
...after U.N. salvage vessels finally raised and towed the cement-filled hulk Akka out of the main channel, the Egyptians continued to dawdle about removing explosives from the wrecked tug Edgar Bonnet, and thus effectively kept the ditch plugged. The U.S., however, was concerned less about Nasser's blackmail than about other Arab opinion...