Word: discredited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegations drew a cascade of prompt denials from both U.S. and West German officials, who suggested, plausibly, that Capital had been the victim of a hoax concocted by right-wing intelligence agents hoping to further discredit Bonn's Social Democratic regime. Nollau pointed out several obvious errors in the purported CIA paper, and sought a court injunction to prevent Capital from printing the article. Citing "new information," the magazine promptly decided not to publish. By then, the episode had generated such a furor that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt worried aloud that West Germany might be succumbing to "spy hysteria...
...German regime that there are hidden dangers in detente. According to this reasoning, the East Germans have achieved the international recognition they want from détente, but now refuse to open their country to more contacts with the West. Thus, by embarrassing Brandt, the East Germans hope to discredit Ostpolitik in Bonn and reduce the pressure for internal change...
...Nollau caper suggests that some right-wing West Germans, with their own political reasons for wanting to discredit Brandt's successors, have decided that spy hysteria can be as useful to them as it is to the Communists...
...expected that these machinations will be used again by Soviet propaganda in the present campaign to falsify my past and to discredit me. After my expulsion, I was officially declared to be a nonperson. Nonetheless, the KGB in no way has reduced its activity against me and my friends...
Government efforts to excuse (or discredit) Rice's behavior succeed for a time. But after returning to earth, he calls for an end to manipulation by a hidden power elite and sets out in a silver jumpsuit and old silver school bus called Liberty Two to carry his message across the nation. He becomes a potent grassroots force before he is destroyed by shadowy operatives representing some sinister force within the Government...