Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officials in both Cairo and Washington cautioned against any expectations of spectacular or decisive results from Sadat's visit. But despite all the efforts to keep the discussions private, the main concerns on the minds of both leaders were no secret. Flying to the U.S. on Sadat's gleaming red, white and black Presidential Special, Egyptian officials admitted their dismay at the recent course of events. On Sadat's trip to Washington last April, Carter had convinced him that Israel wanted a detailed and permanent resolution of the Middle East conflict rather than a mere termination of the long state...
...crisp day in January 1950, Alger and Priscilla Hiss sat in a Manhattan courtroom, he pressing his lips in a tight smile, she fingering her handbag. A federal jury was ready to pass judgment on whether he had lied in denying that he had given secret State Department documents to a Soviet agent in 1938. Intoned the forewoman: "We find the defendant guilty on the first count and guilty on the second." Showing almost no emotion, Hiss and his wife slowly walked out of the room, surrounded by a pack of lawyers and spectators...
Some members of CUE said yesterday that they saw no reason for keeping the report secret...
...team concluded that Indira Gandhi would easily win re-election in 1977. More embarrassing was the gambit of Vladimir Rybachenko, who served in Paris as a UNESCO official. Shortly before Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Paris on a good-will visit in 1976, Rybachenko was caught receiving secret documents that described a French Defense Ministry computer system. Rybachenko was expelled. Then there was the gift by Colonel Vassili Denisenko, the Soviet military attaché in Switzerland, to an under cover KGB spy of 13 years...
Britain. Its Secret Intelligence Service is tops at analytical work and political judgments. Good on the Middle East, less impressive on Africa. Master Spy Kim Philby's exposure as a KGB agent in 1963 was a blow, but SIS has overcome that...