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Word: dossiers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helpful Dossiers. O'Sullivan admitted preparing "dossiers" on Australian newsmen and turning them over to a correspondent for Tass, the official Russian news agency and cover-up for Moscow's international agents. The dossier on one reporter said: "[He is] drinking himself to abnormality; probably originally a Protestant, not now practicing, married, promiscuous." On another: "[This reporter] also probably holds security job, drinks, married." The dossiers went to Moscow by diplomatic pouch, said Petrov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tass at Work | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...found the two assistant assassins only too happy to defect themselves. This was in February. Ever since then, until Khokhlov's story was made public last week, American intelligence officers and their British counterparts had been cross-questioning him and cross-checking his story, until a 4 ft. dossier was assembled and they were satisfied that what the ex-MVDemon told them was the truth-as far as it went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Whistler | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...wrote Oppenheimer. Said he, in part: "One is tempted to feel that you are so foolish as to think you can buy immunity for yourself by turning informer. I hope that this is not true. You know very well that once these people decide to go into your own dossier and make it public that it will make the revelations that have been made so far look pretty tame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER His Life & Times | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...reports on Communist activity which included White's name that were delivered to the White House in Nov. and Dec. 1945. When the FBI heard White's name had been sent to the Senate for confirmation as US Director of the International Monetary Fund, a 28-page dossier of secret information "whose reliability has been established either by inquiry or long-established observation and evaluation," was delivered to Gen. Harry Vaughan on Feb. 4, 1946. The following observation was made in that report: "As will be observed, information has come to the attention of this Bureau charging White as being...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: White Case in Perspective: Politics and Laxity | 12/11/1953 | See Source »

Truman said he received an FBI report on White on Feb. 6, 1946, after the Senate had confirmed his new appointment. On receiving the dossier, he reportedly conferred with State Secretary James Byrnes and Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson. Vinson then went into a huddle with Hoover and Attorney General Tom Clark. All three agreed White was "unfit for service...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: White Case in Perspective: Politics and Laxity | 12/11/1953 | See Source »

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