Word: provocateur
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Michigan state criminal syndicalism law. The prosecution contended that Foster was a member of an organization (the Trade Union Educational League, a subsidiary of the Communist Party) which advocated violence in overthrowing the Government of the United States. The star witness of the prosecution was "K-97," an agent provocateur in the employ of the Burns Detective Agency, who attended the convention as a delegate and turned informer on the defendants. The defense, conducted by Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman with ex-President Taft of the War Labor Board, attempted to prove that the defendant's advocacy...