Word: blackmailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enticements for such traitorous acts today are various. In a permissive age, sexual entrapment is not as effective as it used to be, but it can still play a role in KGB blackmail schemes. In the late 1970s, a randy West German with political ambitions who had made several sexual conquests at the Leipzig Trade Fair soon learned that he was the unwitting star of a movie directed by the KGB's sister operation in East Germany, the MfS. If he did not show equal enthusiasm about climbing into bed with the secret police, agents threatened, they would turn over...
...best way to achieve the peace and security that mankind desires." The silver-haired veteran U.S. negotiator also denounced "recent Soviet propaganda activities" that sought to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its Western European partners. Said Nitze: "The NATO nations cannot be held hostage to nuclear blackmail at the hands of the Soviet Union...
...leading an armed independence struggle in the territory. At a stormy meeting two weeks ago in the capital of another black neighbor, Zimbabwe, Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, was berated by Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, who called the linkage idea "blackmail." Said Mugabe: "The U.S.'s insistence on this linkage has given solace to the South African regime." The Zimbabwean leader declared that the U.S. position had "introduced a stumbling block that may well impede the decolonization process, albeit temporarily...
...While the subject is "on the cans," a Scientologist "auditor" quizzes him to uncover any embarrassing or painful experiences in his past. All such traumas are recorded. Defectors have claimed that church members are often required to confess their wrongdoings in signed statements, which have sometimes been used as blackmail to keep dissidents silent. In the late 1970s, to supplement dianetics, Hubbard developed the "purification rundown," which he said would rid the body of the ill effects of chemicals, drugs, smog and radiation through the use of vitamins, grain oil, exercise and sauna treatments...
...heart of the matter, of course, was the pipeline itself. The administration was worried that the Soviets could blackmail the Europeans by denying them gas, and that cash obtained form the sale of gas would end up in Afghanistan and Poland in the form of guns. These concerns were not unwarranted...