Word: discreditment
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...roaded Ian. It is a travesty what the administration is doing with this thing," said Nan M. Glickman, a member of the Tufts Political Action Coalition (TPAC). Calling Kremer a liar, she said, "is a diversionary tactic. The administration, by making him seem like a liar, is trying to discredit him and the left on campus...
...Manucher Ghorbanifar, the expatriate Iranian merchant and middleman who had offered to help the U.S. establish contacts in Iran. CIA activists in the agency's counterterrorism program supported the use of Ghorbanifar but eventually were outmaneuvered by the agency's Middle East operations officers, who waged a campaign to discredit the Iranian. Once Ghorbanifar was cut out of the delicate negotiations and the operatives at the Iran desk had prevailed in their efforts to have the U.S. bargain directly with Iranian officials, the whole enterprise went sour. Infuriated, Ghorbanifar then urged an Iranian faction to leak the story...
...expertise of the desk's operatives, Casey offered them part of the action: they were asked to assess Ghorbanifar. Larkin first attempted to recruit Ghorbanifar as a CIA contract agent, which would put the Iranian under his control. When Ghorbanifar refused, Larkin and his colleagues set out to discredit him. This deepened Ghorbanifar's long-standing distrust...
...faced from the FBI. The complex and convincing portrait drawn by David Garrow, associate professor of political science at New York's City College, describes how the bureau under J. Edgar Hoover tried to blackmail and intimidate King with tapes of his sexual encounters and how it attempted to discredit him by spreading reports about his love life after he refused to break off his friendship with a suspected Communist agent...
...engineered Berkhin's arrest was fired, and there were warnings that more dismissals were in the offing. Even more surprising was the way the firing was announced: on the front page of Pravda. In a statement signed by KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov, the offending officer was castigated as a discredit to his profession. Chebrikov pledged to take measures to "ensure the strict observance of law" by state security forces...