Word: traitorous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some fresh perspectives: he delves deeply into the daily life of counter-intelligence operatives; he recounts a sensational (and eminently disputable) surmise about Angleton; and with documents obtained with the Freedom of Information Act, he gives credit for the exposure of Kim Philby, Britain's most notorious postwar traitor, to a relatively obscure CIA official. Wilderness focuses on an odd couple: the elusive Angleton and the swaggering William Harvey, an improbable pair of diverse talents and temperaments who together stood guard over America's secrets for much of the postwar era. Observes Martin: "Where Harvey had raged against...
Back in Oak Creek, where Mrs. Timm is on leave from her job as a switchboard operator at an ironworks foundry, some townspeople consider her a traitor for going off to Iran against the Administration's wishes. Others contend that she had at least for a moment eased the tensions between the U.S. and the militants by personalizing and depoliticizing the situation. Her younger sister, Judy Haessly, 34, takes a more down-to-earth view: "She's not a traitor, and she's not Joan of Arc. She's just a mother who wants...
...sign of the emergence of a Vietnamese-style liberation front among Afghanistan's disparate and so far uncoordinated rebels. But the letters have far more credibility than the government and its enormous press, radio and TV propaganda machine. Indeed, Karmal is seen as a puppet and a traitor. He is commonly referred to as a saq (dog)-an unclean animal to Muslims...
...official communique issued after a week of deliberations, the 201-member committee declared that the labels of "renegade, traitor and scab," attached to Liu by a 1968 Central Committee resolution, were now invalid. Liu, who reportedly died in disgrace in 1969, would henceforth be regarded as "a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary and one of the principal leaders of the party and state...
...former champ, who was hurt to discover that Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere would not receive him, threatened to call off his trip. Said he: "If I'm to be looked at as an Uncle Tom or a traitor or someone against my black brothers, I want out 'cause that's not my purpose...