Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After he agreed to knock back a few vodkas with the London Daily Express' man in Moscow, British Traitor Harold Philby, 55, proved aggressively unrepentant. "I would do it again tomorrow," said the former chief of British counterintelligence, who went over the wall in 1963. His purpose, he said, "was the fight for Communism" and the eradication of the many evils of capitalism, prominent among them "the expense-account lunch, British railways, the Beaverbrook press, the English Channel and the rising cost of living." By contrast, Philby added, "I am having a love affair with Moscow," marred only...
...Rockefeller is a Republican, then Benedict Arnold was no traitor...
Aside from his extraordinary career as a traitor and a spy, he can claim another distinction. Because of his consummate duplicity, he is undoubtedly the only Russian agent ever to have been decorated with the Order of the British Empire and to have been awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit, an unwittingly fitting tribute from Franco Spain...
Ahmed Shukairy, the fiery chief of the Egyptian-based Palestine Liberation Organization and a special Nasser guest in Khartoum, blasted right back, labeling Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba "a traitor to the Arab cause" for having advocated peace talks with Israel back in 1965. Furious, Slim stormed out of the conference hall. "There is no justification for Mr. Shukairy's presence," he told reporters. The arguments increased in intensity until Syria's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Makhous went on Khartoum television to announce that the whole conference was "a farce and a waste of time...
...wind of the meeting and managed to have it postponed until his return. Then he declared all-out war on Liu. Red Guard cartoons began depicting the gaunt, grey President as licking the boots of American imperialists; wall posters denounced him as a capitalist-lover and a traitor. Liu's wife was forced to attend Red Guard meetings, where she was expected to offer public criticism of herself and her husband...