Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area including the Ras Sudr oilfields; that move is now scheduled to be completed by mid-November. Almost simultaneously, Syrian and Israeli troops clashed on the Golan Heights. It was the first such incident since the Syrian-Israeli disengagement in May 1974. The Syrian strategy seemed clearly designed to discredit Sadat in the Arab world on the eve of his departure to Washington. Damascus apparently intends to raise tension on the Golan to draw world attention to this unsolved problem, and President Hafez Assad has warned that Syria may not renew the U.N. force mandate, which expires...
Scott, who is hiding out with his wife Micki, phoned Examiner Reporter Larry Kramer last week to denounce the Rolling Stone piece as a "crass, sensationalized attempt to discredit Patty Hearst and her defense." He did not dispute the story but insisted that Kohn and Weir got their information while working as investigators for Scott's former defense attorney, Michael Kennedy. If that is true, then Kohn and Weir would be guilty of a clear breach of journalistic ethics...
They were honest about wanting to neutralize these people. They were hon est about saying they were dangerous and, you know, could destroy the system we had. They were right. There are many ways to neutralize an enemy. You can kill him-that's the ultimate neutralization. Discredit him so he can't do any work-that's another way. You can hassle him until he gets burned out and leaves voluntarily...
Boyd charged the CIA with staging evidence of canabalism in Angola to discredit the population there, and blamed the Langley, Virginia, CIA computer for "the concoction of alphabet soup groups in this country like the SLA or the BLA to perpetuate CIA manipulation of our citizens...
Using agents to tap phones and penetrate the Ecuadorian Communist party, Agee & Co. worked out an elaborate ruse to discredit a leftist named Antonio Flores Benitez. They concocted a report in the name of Flores, depicting him as a violent revolutionary. The paper was secreted in a tube of toothpaste. One of the agents at the airport then concealed the tube up his sleeve and let it fall out while examining Flores' luggage. When the document was "discovered," the ensuing uproar in the press helped discredit the government...