Word: discredit
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...secret project designed to smear Bruno Gaccio, lead writer of the channel's popular news parody, Les Guignols de l'Info. Martinet's new book recounts how he shadowed Gaccio for six months in 2002 in what he says was an effort by channel security bosses "to discredit Gaccio by discovering outrageous information from his private life." Martinet says Gaccio was targeted as a leader of Canal Plus' famously feisty staff, as well as the driving force behind Guignols, a show which has infuriated politicians and public figures for years. Barely two months after Gaccio led a televised protest over...
...proposed to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" with his Strategic Defense Initiative. Now, in response to Gorbachev's ambitious peace offensive and offer to cut offensive weapons if Star Wars is scrapped, Reagan is responding with, "Let's talk about something else, something that the Soviets, to their discredit, don't want to talk about...
...were playing tough teams and I’m not going to discredit them,” Gordon said. “But I think a lot of it had to do with our own mental game...
...have restored. "This kind of thing can destroy a person." "This kind of thing" has been happening across the former Soviet bloc as police archives, sealed since the end of communism, are gradually revealed to the public. The political fallout is intense. Politicians are seizing on the information to discredit foes. Some question the very authenticity of the files, but a growing number of people see the opening of the secret-police archives as an overdue step towards normalcy after a half-century of totalitarian rule. The disclosures can be "a good thing in the hands of reasonable people," Walesa...
...stop there. Grzelak wrote that Niezabitowska did come back the next day and agreed to collaborate under the code name Nowak. The controller filed 10 additional reports on meetings with Nowak. Niezabitowska says this portion of her file was fabricated by her controller, perhaps to advance his career or discredit her and other activists. "They wanted to neutralize people, not kill them," she says of the communist regime, "discredit them and force them out of the opposition." All the information attributed to Nowak is accurate, she says, but taken from the initial seven-hour interview. Last month, Niezabitowska was granted...