Word: provocateur
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Khrushchev, telling of the episode in his famed secret speech to the 20th Party Congress in February 1956, said that the woman Timashuk was a professional provocateur ("an unofficial collaborator with the organs of state security") and that an unnamed "someone" had put her up to the job. Khrushchev left the identity of the "someone" open...
Stephen A. Aaron followed with the Ivy Oration, in which he revealed that the setter of the Mem Hall fire was really Cesare D. Balzotti, "agent provocateur for Mr. Vellucci," discovered to be Ming Emperor Sey-Pu, whose name, unscrambled, might be easily recognized...
...Agent Provocateur. In Crescent Beach, S.C., after three vacationers called police to report a bee swarm blocking the way into their house, Police Chief Howard Bailey replied: "I can't beat a bee with a blackjack, I can't shoot them and I can't arrest them. Tell you what. If you'll get 'em drunk, I'll come down and see what...
...After the war Stalin became even more capricious, irritable and brutal; in particular, his suspicion grew. His persecution mania reached unbelievable dimensions . . . This un believable suspicion was cleverly taken advantage of by the abject provocateur and vile enemy Beria, who had murdered thousands of Communists and loyal Soviet people . . . The question arises . . . Why did we not do something earlier, during Stalin's life, in order to prevent the loss of innocent lives? It was because Stalin personally supervised [the purges], and the majority of the Politburo members did not at the time know all of the circumstances . . . and could...
...police agents began to jostle him in the streets, blow smoke into his face, hoping to provoke an incident. On one occasion his wife was attacked by a woman who noisily claimed to have been Djilas' mistress, but Djilas took the case to court, where the woman, a provocateur, was fined. Children in the neighborhood were told not to play with the Djilas' three-year-old son. A spy was planted in the grocery where the family bought its food. When these methods failed to shake the stubborn Djilas, the authorities insisted that he leave his old apartment...