Word: spinola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RAIN pours down at Dusseldorf airport. Former President of Portugal General Antonio Ribeiro de Spinola emerges from his plane and is quietly ushered into a waiting car. He is met by an adviser to the President of West Germany's right-wing party; when the President arrives, the two leaders will make clandestine preparations for the coup that will return General Spinola and his conservatives to power...
Only it is not the President's adviser at all, but an imposter--West Germany's "undesirable journalist," an avowed socialist sympathizer, Gunter Wallraff. Spinola is the victim of an elaborate hoax, perpetrated over the course of many months, during which Wallraff. Spinola is the victim of an elaborate hoax, perpetrated over the course of many months, during which Wallraff has carefully recorded and photographed evidence of the General's subversive activities. And now, ignorant of his undoing, Spinola himself is about to deliver his own coup degrace, revealing the most incriminating information...