Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Received from its Post Office and Civil Service Committee a bill to deny civil service pensions to Government workers who duck behind the Fifth Amendment, or who are convicted of perjury, bribery, graft, treason, or any other felony. The proposal arose from the case of Alger Hiss, who will get a federal pension at age 62 unless the bill is enacted...
...refused, tried to get a foreign-service post but was turned down because of his having collaborated with the British. But in time he became head of West Germany's O.F.P.O.C. (Office for the Protection of the Constitution), the security agency charged with detecting espionage, subversion and treason. He was the J. Edgar Hoover of West Germany's FBI. a legendary "man of a thousand secrets." and with him to the east he carried the thousand secrets about the agents, techniques and plans of the West's intelligence...
Since 1943, Von Starhemberg has been holed up in Argentina-but for little good reason of late. Another Austrian court last year ruled that there were no grounds for trying him on charges of high treason...
...Essentially he's no investigator. He's a headline-maker." Johnny-Come-Lately. Woltman found that McCarthy makes headlines by "wild twisting of facts and near facts [which] repels authorities in the field." For his adversaries, McCarthy has a special technique that "consists of imputing [to them] treason, treasonable motives, plots and conspiracies . . . Those with whose decisions Mr. McCarthy disagrees are, in his book, in league with traitors." To prove his points, McCarthy has a "unique distortion technique: stating as facts a set of nonexisting circumstances, then repeating them as facts when challenged." Woltman himself has known McCarthy...
...that point Sunde paled, complained: "Somebody has fixed the notes." Last week the court fixed Sunde: it found him guilty of espionage and treason, sentenced him to eight years in jail...