Word: blackmailed
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...this is part of U.S. intelligence gathering designed to prepare against any kind of military attack-for instance, a North Korean strike at South Korea. It also helps to keep the U.S. from getting caught in the kind of nuclear-blackmail situation that would have resulted had photo reconnaissance not turned up the Soviet IRBM installations in Cuba in 1962. Sophisticated electronic satellites have made some of the monitoring flights redundant, but the lumbering EC-121 is still more versatile and reliable, if more vulnerable to attack than a satellite orbiting in space...
...says. "Wrong, and you are up on the Hill." Men like Betts and John Foster, the research chief for the Defense Department, suffer nightmares that the other side may achieve some technological breakthrough that will leave the U.S. far behind in some crucial area and thereby subject it to blackmail by an enemy with an unbeatable hand...
...come-in-from-the-cold novelists have schooled us all in the vileness of the espionage agent's world. Murder, kidnaping, blackmail and the theft of secrets, moreover, hardly appear to be the stuff of which peace is made. Yet there is much documented support for Hagen's claim. His main concern lies in Europe, and he makes a convincing case that since 1945, the balance of power there has been partially maintained through the growth, care and feeding of espionage agencies...
Russia opened the game in 1945 by infiltrating the secret-police forces of Eastern European countries with double agents who were used to murder or blackmail local anti-Communist politicians. The CIA was not founded until 1947, but the U.S. fought back by employing the spy system of defeated Germany, directed by General Reinhard Gehlen. An aristocratic non-Nazi who had directed Eastern-front espionage for Hitler, Gehlen knew early that Germany would lose. Sensing that the cold war would soon develop, he maintained his network of agents in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Grisly as the idea...
Russia's secret-police agency, the KGB, is on a constant lookout for potentially useful Western visitors-and not above using sex to provide evidence for blackmail. With an increasing number of businessmen visiting Russia and other Communist countries, the British government has taken public account of this fact. In a pamphlet issued by the Board of Trade, it offers Britons the delicate warning that "a liaison between a visitor and a local girl will not long remain unknown to the local intelligence service. The girl may be acting for that service from the outset...