Word: communist-front
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...those who sought them, there were signs that Hiss was more than just a bright young bureaucrat. While working by day on Wall Street, he was active by night in the International Juridical Association, an alleged communist-front lawyers' organization. As early as 1942, the FBI received warnings that Hiss was probably a Soviet agent. The stories became so persistent that late in 1946 officials at State quietly arranged for him to assume the largely ceremonial presidency of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Hiss was serving as head of the Endowment on Aug. 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers...
...Czechoslovakia six of the nation's 13 sees are now led by Rome-appointed bishops or apostolic administrators. Restoration of the hierarchy had been stalled for years because the regime wanted bishops tied to a Communist-front "peace" association. Rome refused -- and finally prevailed...
...Western Europe. By CIA reckoning, the Soviets spend roughly $3 billion to $4 billion each year on overt and covert propaganda activities. According to a State Department official, as much as $600 million may have been spent so far on the peace offensive. Using national Communist parties or recognized Communist-front organizations like the World Peace Council, the Kremlin has been able to channel funds to a host of new antiwar organizations that would, in many cases, reject the financial help if they knew the source. Western intelligence experts believe that the mass movement in opposition to new NATO missiles...
...Malley claimed that KGB officers have recently instructed their contacts "to devote serious attention to the antiwar movement in the United States." He pointed out that a Communist-front group, the U.S. Peace Council, was among the organizers of last June's huge peace protest in New York City, and reportedly tried to direct criticism away from the Soviet Union. One Soviet diplomat posted in Washington, who is involved in active-measures work, frequently speaks at disarmament meetings across the country. But so far, according to O'Malley, the KGB has not manipulated the American movement "significantly...
...ALREADY BOMBED and on another youth's poster was the request REAGAN-GIVE ME A CHANCE TO REACH YOUR AGE. Some would-be ralliers were absent: the U.S. Government refused to let about 300 foreigners, mostly Japanese, enter the country; Washington claimed most were members of Communist-front organizations. New York City's government, on the other hand, went out of its way to accommodate the earnest horde and expected its costs to exceed $ 1 million, including overtime pay to the 5,000 police assigned to oversee the crowds at the U.N., in the park and in more...