Word: discreditment
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...best, their counter-propaganda efforts will discredit and slow down the rise of the Front. But the fundamental problem of an economic failure and its disastrous human consequences will remain. The reversal of this economic failure, and of its dehumanizing consequences remains the real problem for Britain. Ultimately, it will only be resolved through the supersession of the cyclical capitalist economy, which recurrently exposes society to economic breakdown, and concurrently exposes it to the fascist threat...
...Kissinger. Nixon, Haldeman writes, "knew that Henry's view on a particular subject was sometimes subject to change without notice." Nixon did not destroy his tapes because at first he felt he would never have to give them up and later he thought they could be used to discredit John Dean. Haldeman flatly denies Nixon's Frost-show claim that he once told Haldeman to get rid of the tapes...
...comforted those who work against the CIA. A Soviet KGB agent told a TIME correspondent in Cairo last week: "Of all the operations that the Soviet Union and the U.S. have conducted against each other, none have benefited the KGB as much as the campaign in the U.S. to discredit the CIA. In our wildest scenarios, we could never have anticipated such a plus for our side. It's the kind of gift all espionage men dream about. Today our boys have it a lot easier, and we didn't have to lift a finger. You did all our work...
...East Germans, Honecker called a Politburo meeting to deal with the crisis. The party leadership closed Der Spiegel's East Berlin bureau, the first such Communist action since East and West Germany agreed to exchange journalists in 1972. A wide-scale press campaign in the East tried to discredit the manifesto as a "malicious concoction" of West German intelligence. Initially some Communist-propaganda experts in Bonn had suspected the document's authenticity. Now, however, there is agreement that the manifesto was composed by a small group of dissidents and low-level party members in the East...
...primary reason that they are not professionals. The use of students as a major component of the recruitment directive--students without training, students without real office support, students without compensation, and students without adequate operating funds--looks in fact like an attempt by the admissions office to discredit and cripple minority recruitment...