Word: pretexting
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...ships becalmed in the harbor at Aulis will receive no favoring wind to retrieve Helen and ravage Troy unless he makes a blood sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia. With passive fatalism, Agamemnon sends a duplicitous letter to his wife Clytemnestra asking her to bring Iphigenia to Aulis on the pretext that she is to be given in marriage to Achilles, supreme hero-in-arms...
Taylor devised a plan. On the pretext of keeping in touch with the three U.S. diplomats being held under house arrest at the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Taylor ingratiated himself with local officials as a friendly and neutral diplomat. He learned just what documents and procedures would be needed in the processing of embassy personnel in and out of Tehran under the erratic Ayatullah Khomeini government. He began sending some of his own staff" on unnecessary flights to establish a travel pattern and to study the clearance procedures...
...slogans about their obligations to the international working class, Lenin, Stalin and their successors devoted themselves to shoring up the security of the U.S.S.R. Making the world safe for socialism has always been a euphemism for protecting Soviet interests, just as championing "wars of national liberation" has been a pretext for installing comradely governments and thwarting the U.S. in the Third World. While paranoid in motivation, such a policy is often predatory in practice. The men in the Kremlin would not feel entirely secure unless the whole world were made up of "fraternal" (i.e., satellite) or at least Finlandized countries...
...otherwise," said Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, "would have meant leaving Afghanistan a prey to imperialism." Furthermore, said Brezhnev, Afghanistan was not even the cause of the current crisis. Said he: "If there were no Afghanistan, certain circles in the U.S. and in NATO would have found another pretext to aggravate the situation...
...talents of our youths and everything else we had. Obviously, Iranians cannot have a good view of the U.S. Government. And recently our people discovered that the Administration had turned its so-called embassy into a base for espionage and conspiracy against Iran. Spies were operating there under the pretext of being embassy personnel. Now that our people know this fact, they consider the Administration their No. 1 enemy...