Word: pena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Filipino officials had more loyal friends in high places than Pedro de la Pena, 36, one of the top agents in the Philippine army intelligence service, and few Manila businessmen were noisier defenders of free enterprise than his friend, Chinese-born Antonio Chua Cruz. Chua's Chinese-language weekly Free Asia was as noted in Manila for its bitter editorial attacks on Communism as Pedro was for the endless favors and help he gave those fighting the Red menace...
Army officers working with Civilian Pedro in G-2 soon found him a ready source for loans. Those with a yen for dalliance discovered that his women friends were many and obliging. In time, the roster of Philippine officials indebted to Pedro de la Pena reached throughout army headquarters, the Senate and Manila's city hall. There was one official, however, whose acquaintance Pedro scrupulously avoided: Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay...
...indignantly assured Magsaysay that Pedro was "a good man." Some threatened to resign, themselves, but the Defense Secretary held his ground. Then, last month, the U.S. Communist agitator William Pomeroy was captured (TIME, April 21). Among his papers, announced Magsaysay last week, were some interesting notes about De la Pena: Pedro was a secret Communist agent in the service of the Huks and Red China...