Word: diversionism
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One of his diversionary efforts was aimed at an old and familiar adversary: Congress. He touched it off by refusing to turn over to a Senate subcommittee the unpublished personal papers of the late Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal. "Not in the public interest," said a sharp White House...
Satellite Rumania reported the capture of Wilhelm Spender and Constantin Saplakan, "two spies dropped in the Fagaras district on Oct. 18 by a U.S. aircraft which had set out from Athens." Spender and Saplakan, Rumania said, were recruited from an Italian D.P. camp in 1951, trained in "special U.S. espionage...
Moscow's Tass news agency announced the execution of A. I. Osmanov and I. K. Sarantsev, said to have received "special training from U.S. intelligence officers in topography, the use of weapons and parachuting." Osmanov and Sarantsev, said Tass, had been flown from Greece in a U.S. plane and...
The happy performer who manages to play the notes at all my rest assured that not he, but the composer will be reviewed; should this become the style of the New York critics, much will have been done to eliminate stage-fright. Note, however, that our happy performer must be...
Dangerous Lottery. Why had Nahas Pasha acted so brazenly, if he could not match deeds with words? One possibility was that, watching Mossadeq's success, he too expected the British lion to roll over and play dead. A likelier explanation was that he badly needed a diversion at home...