Word: doublecross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doublecross. At the beginning of last week. President Jacobo Arbenz,* who had persisted in typical Communist butchery in his last days in office (see below), had stepped down in favor of Colonel Carlos Enrique Diaz, chief of the armed forces. But Castillo Armas, convinced that Diaz was just a front for Arbenz, had said as much by going on with his war, notably by bombing Guatemala City's Matamoros Fort. Peurifoy agreed heartily with Castillo Armas' action. The ambassador had learned that under a cover of vocal antiCommunism, the doublecrossing Diaz was letting Arbenz' Red advisers...
...Medal-of-Honor-winning commander of the Fighting 69th in World War I and head of the OSS in World War II. In Thailand, Donovan's OSS performed some of its greatest feats. Working with Japanese-appointed Regent Pridi Banomyong in what has been called "the greatest doublecross in history." OSS operatives built up a resistance movement under the conquerors' noses...
...Lauwers, a Dutch agent of British Intelligence, sat in a German police headquarters near The Hague with his hand on the radio key that was his link with London. The Germans wanted to make the link theirs; Lauwers, recently arrested, had agreed to cooperate. Suspecting that Lauwers might doublecross them, the Germans were ready to jam the signal at the first misplaced dot or dash. But Lauwers had no intention of straying from his captors' text; his British instructions, he says, called for him to garble every 16th letter. By omitting the prearranged errors, he would be informing London...
...There are some who say that the general intends to doublecross his new friends after the election. I do not believe either that the general is so unscrupulous or that they are so stupid...
...Walkout. A gasp of surprise ran through the committee room. Taftman Sommers was walking out on his own organization's delegation. Later, Sommers said that Tucker had been doublecrossing him by gunning for his job as committeeman, and had not let him have as many Taft delegates as he thought he should have. Ikeman Tuttle called Sommers' action: "The worst doublecross that I have ever experienced...