Word: counterfeited
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...Albanian national, Bazna served as valet to the British ambassador in Ankara, which enabled him to photocopy secret papers, including telegrams between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, and detailed plans for the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Germans paid him more than $1,000,000 for the information-all in counterfeit sterling notes they were circulating in hopes of undermining the British economy. In 1960, Bazna emigrated to Germany, where he most recently worked as a night watchman in Munich...
...counterfeit bills received by Hungry Charlie's are of extremely poor quality, according to Richard Stasiak, manager of the restaurant. "They're kind of rusty brown in color," he said...
John Mcgrath, Supervisor of the Money Department at the Harvard Trust Company, has received several counterfeit bills, all of poor quality. He has noted a common quirk in many of the bills he has received...
...general feeling among Harvard Square merchants is that the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is prime time for bogus-bill passing. Many of them have gone through similar rashes of bad-bill passing before, at this time of year, although most merchants feel they could recognize a counterfeit bill by flaws in its size, color, feeling or detail...
...said that this incidence of badbill passing was not in any way connected with the Medford-based counterfeit ring broken up last December...