Word: blackmailings
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...Representative (1934-40), and finally into the Senate, where as chairman of the War Investigating Committee he built a reputation as a relentless prosecutor of Democratic misdeeds but finally met his nemesis in the form of Financier Howard Hughes, who charged that Brewster had attempted to blackmail him into surrendering control of Trans-World Airlines-a charge that was never proved but that helped cost Brewster his Senate seat in the 1952 election and foiled his determined and continuing efforts to get an appointive job from the Eisenhower Administration...
From Washington, State Department reaction to the deal was swift and damning: to propose trading Cardinal Mindszenty for U.S. reconciliation with the Kadar regime or for dropping the Hungarian question from the U.N. agenda is simply a form of blackmail...
...Tricks. Just outside East Berlin is the Reds' highest training school for top agents-the kind who are equally adept at blackmail, crime, romance and business administration. Here the cream of East Germany's spy material spends a year under the intelligence elite (the HVA, or the Main Administration for Intelligence), headed by Russia's renowned Brigadier Markus Wolf...
...called "Eleanor" by the U.S. agents who worked on the case) on the staff of the U.S. forces in Germany met a Communist agent called "Paul" at the Embassy Club, a U.S.-run community center in Bad Godesberg. Paul called himself a naturalized American; romance developed, until Eleanor was blackmailed into promising to hand over to the Russians her boss's telegrams; thinking it over, she took her problem to the U.S. authorities, who promptly broke up the plot. In another case of blackmail, an East German girl named Rosalie Kunze was forced to serve...
...army has taken over the role of the political opposition. Instead of the Fourth Republic's recurring crises, it has substituted putsches. Since the 1958 uprising that cleared the way for De Gaulle's accession to power, the military crises have come annually, exercising a constant blackmail threat against government action it opposes. So mistrustful of the army is De Gaulle that its fuel, food, ammunition and other supplies are being doled out in quantities sufficient to last only a few days, after which any putsch would theoretically be "asphyxiated." Disaffection has gradually spread from...