Word: blackmailer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assignments for the KGB involved informing on boyhood friends. Later he specialized in the sexual entrapment of foreigners. His job was to introduce ambassadors and attaches to beautiful Soviet women, known as "swallows" in secret police parlance. Once a diplomat was caught nesting with a swallow, there followed a blackmail attempt and-the KGB hoped-recruitment of the victim as a Soviet agent...
...competition has not been hurt were widely quoted. Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat, who was treated as an honored guest despite his refusal eight years ago to condemn the Arab terrorists in Munich, observed in a television interview: "The crowded stands are testimony to the fact that no blackmail and no boycott have been able to disrupt the Moscow Olympics...
...graduates at Zagorsk were probably appreached at some point by the KGB secret police and asked to spy on colleagues. Some observers charge that promotion in the hierarchy tends to go not only to mediocrities but to men with known character weaknesses-which leaves them subject to blackmail...
...government was determined, Home Secretary William Whitelaw said later, not to allow "terrorist blackmail to succeed." Whitelaw, who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, was in charge of the government's handling of the crisis from the beginning...
...clear, looking back over the 53 films Hitchcock made, is that central to his accomplishment was his utterly unforgettable imagery. The boy unknowingly carrying a bomb on the bus in Sabotage; the chases that bring pursuer and pursued to final grips in such unlikely places as the British Museum (Blackmail), the Statue of Liberty (Saboteur), Mount Rushmore (North by Northwest) and on a runaway carrousel (Strangers on a Train). Recall the crows gathering menacingly in a playground behind the unseeing Tippi Hedren in The Birds, or Jimmy Stewart wrestling with his fear in a church steeple in order to rescue...