Word: provocateur
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Died. Boleslaw Bierut, 63, first secretary of the United Polish Workers' (Communist) Party, longtime slippery provocateur who was picked by the Russians to head the Moscow-sponsored Polish (Lublin) government during World War II and was muscled in as head of state two days after the Red army "liberated" Warsaw; of a heart attack; in Moscow, where he was stricken after attending last month's 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party...
...names of his comrades and to make him betray his party. Like a true Communist, he remained steadfast and unshaken, and refused to betray the cause." Said last week's indictment: In 1924 he enrolled as an agent for the Rumanian secret police and "acted as an agent provocateur...
Violent Denunciation. When Greek police arrested Old Party Wheelhorse Ploumbides last year for high treason and espionage, Zachariades joined in with a violent campaign against him. Ploumbides, cried Iron Curtain radio stations, was a stooge, an agent provocateur in the pay of the U.S., Britain and the Greek police...
...dreadful mistake: Pankow is in the Russian sector of Berlin, not as he had thought in one of the Western sectors. When Freies Volk discovered Treiber's error, it quickly printed an abject retraction: "Rudi Treiber has been unmasked [and fired] ... as a liar and an agent provocateur." Said ex-Comrade Treiber lamely: "I just didn't know where Pankow...
Bartley Crum, publisher of the New York Star, produced an even more striking theory: he seemed to be saying that Bernadotte himself was an agent provocateur and had deliberately exposed himself to assassination. Crum declared that when Bernadotte set out on the inspection tour during which he was shot, he "had taken a devious, roundabout route which led him, for no reason whatever, directly through the Stern gang stronghold." (Actually, the Sternists did not control any one part of Jerusalem; their known headquarters were nowhere along Bernadotte's route...