Word: recruiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months before the embassy takeover, the documents indicate, U.S. officials in Tehran made a good-faith effort to mend relations. Yet there were attempts at old-fashioned spying. The papers purport to show that the CIA attempted to recruit Abolhassan Banisadr, then an adviser to Khomeini and later President of Iran, to be an informer in the summer of 1979. A CIA agent posing as an American businessman approached Banisadr in Tehran and offered to hire him as a business consultant for $5,000 a month, but the attempt failed...
...page CIA study, issued in March 1979, offered tidbits about Israeli efforts to blackmail and wiretap U.S. Government employees. For example, Shin Beth, the Israeli counterespionage branch allegedly rigged a fake abortion case against a clerk at the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem in an unsuccessful effort to recruit him, apparently in the early '50s. There are accounts of efforts to bribe Marine guards, and in 1954 a hidden microphone planted by the Israelis was discovered in the U.S. Ambassador's offices in Tel Aviv...
...Roosevelt as the smiling and confident man who knew the answers, but in 1932 there was no such omniscience. "If you had to start a campaign trip within ten days, we'd be in an awful fix," Speechwriter Rosenman told the would-be President. Roosevelt assigned Rosenman to recruit the idea men who were to become known as the Brains Trust, notably Columbia Professors Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell and Adolf A. Berle. But the Democratic platform of 1932 committed Roosevelt to Hooverian solutions: a balanced budget and a 25% cut in Government spending...
...classy group of divers like Watson, Mule, Stone, junior Adriana Holy, sophomore Karl Illig and freshman Jennifer Goldberg is the more apparent reason for Harvard's achievements. "The most successful programs are the ones that recruit consistently and we've been very lucky lately," Walker says, adding that he depends on the many academic opportunities he can offer to draw top-flight athletes like Watson, as well as less-talented divers who could benefit from the program...
Anderson grew up in Batavia, Ill., the son of a janitor. Even little-known Augustana did not want him as a football player: he was a basketball recruit, and wrote a letter asking to play football. Cincinnati drafted him in the third round in 1971, and he was developed into a pro quarterback by none other than Bill Walsh, then the Bengals' offensive coach...