Word: blackmailing
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...effort to recruit by blackmail backfires...
Earlier this year the FBI botched an attempt to blackmail a Soviet student into becoming an informant. Soviet and American officials have tried to prevent publicity, but TIME has learned that the incident provoked protests from the Soviet embassy in Washington and generated tensions between the FBI and State Department that are still unresolved...
...field office in Boston turned the case over to bureau headquarters in Washington. James Adams, assistant to lame-duck Director Clarence Kelley, was responsible for the decision to recruit Lusis as an agent or, if it turned out he was already working for the KGB, to "turn" him, through blackmail, into a double agent. Routinely, the agency notified the State Department of its plans...
...American relations were deteriorating dangerously. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and his advisers were regrouping after their disastrous week in Moscow in March and preparing to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva in May. The U.S.S.R. desk at State argued strenuously that the FBI'S proposed blackmail attempt threatened to jeopardize Soviet-American relations at the worst possible time. The CIA supported State, noting it had nothing in its files to indicate Lusis was a KGB "heavy." But, exercising its license to conduct domestic counterespionage, the FBI decided to go ahead anyway...
...will soar if terrorists get their hands on new biological, chemical and radiological?to say nothing of nuclear?arms with which to frighten the innocent. Warns Laqueur: "In ten or fifteen years, terrorists will have the weapons of superviolence; then perhaps even a single person will be able to blackmail an entire town, district or country." To combat tomorrow's terrorist, new and creative measures, as well as an unprecedented degree of international cooperation, will be required. The one certainty is that civilization's war on terrorism will...