Word: blackmailer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...riddled with half-crazy governments." This view is also heard abroad, though mostly in nongovernmental circles. The Swiss newspaper Journal de Genève asserts that the agreement "suggests to the entire world that it is possible to change the direction of U.S. policy through acts of terrorism and blackmail." French Political Commentator Edouard Sablier observes: "Of course it was ransom. By definition, ransom is anything that has to be paid to secure the release of a captured person." The critics attack some specific parts of the agreement, notably the provision that Americans with claims against Iran cannot...
little virtuous blackmail. Everything considered, a library may be a safer investment, even if its name is Mudd...
...several hundred homosexuals were fired from the Central Intelligence Agency, Pentagon and State Department. But since then, gay activists have worn down the bias against them in all Government branches except the military and intelligence agencies, which still ban gays on the ground that they are more susceptible to blackmail, and hence greater security risks, than heterosexuals...
...unidentified mid-level National Security Agency employee has successfully challenged this policy. He won the right to keep his job as a technical analyst despite his homosexuality, but only after agreeing to lessen the danger of blackmail by disclosing his sexual preference to his family (mother, sisters and brothers). Franklin Kameny, a member of the Washington, D.C., Commission on Human Rights and a gay activist, calls the decision "a major breakthrough...
Although Kameny dismisses the idea that homosexuals are especially susceptible to blackmail, many intelligence experts disagree. Says Cord Meyer, former CIA assistant deputy director for operations: "The Soviets specialize in homosexual cases. They assign KGB agents who are homosexuals themselves to entrap our agents." Another U.S. expert cites the case of a homosexual British clerk with the naval attaché's office in Moscow in the mid '50s, William Vassall, who passed Admiralty secrets to the Soviets...