Word: unmask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couldn't. I didn't want to put them in danger. Second, I didn't want to unmask my presence. Who wouldn't talk? Especially the small kids, children who might call out, "Arafat is here! Arafat is here...
...equal importance, Pistone exposed the degree to which Government crime- busting efforts have weakened the Mafia, says Ronald Goldstock, director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. The Mob, which once ran thorough security checks on any stranger, simply lacked the "discipline and internal controls" to unmask the agent, he says...
...stunning reversal for the Sandinistas, who for years have dismissed the contras as "U.S. puppets" and rejected talks of any kind with rebel leaders. Ortega tried to downplay the shift by emphasizing that his proposal does not extend to political negotiations. Cease-fire talks, he said, will "unmask those who say they want peace but in reality want war." The concessions coincided with the first deadline of the peace plan championed by President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica and signed last August by five Central American Presidents. While the Reagan Administration countered Ortega's offer with a call...
...defection, though the broadcasts were the talk of Havana. For the past six weeks, Cuban television has been airing a documentary about CIA activities in Havana in which Cuban double agents step forward to expose alleged U.S. spies. Aspillaga's revelations finally made clear why Castro was willing to unmask so many of his own secret agents for the sake of this broadcast: with Aspillaga talking to the CIA, their cover was already blown...
Even if any wild new foreign adventures were to be hatched in the Government's bureaucracies, the Washington Post and others in the aroused media establishment would unmask and neutralize them. On certain issues, the media can have more influence on U.S. policy than the Secretaries of State and Defense...