Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trout, veal, cheese, fruit salad and wine) by the Times, Blunt candidly admitted that he had been a "talent spotter" for Soviet intelligence at Cambridge University during the 1930s, and that he had provided secret information to Moscow while he worked for M15, the British counterintelligence agency, during World War II. Blunt said that he had been converted to Marxism at Cambridge by his close friend Guy Burgess. "I was persuaded that I could best serve the cause of antifascism by joining him in his work for the Russians." It seemed to him at the time, Blunt explained, that...
...Blunt affair came as no shock to the author of this Essay. He was recruited into the M16 branch of British intelligence during World War II, and operated for 18 months as a spy at Lourengo Marques in Mozambique. His boss at M16 headquarters was Kim Philby-as it turned out-of the KGB. "Intelligence gathering, "the author later observed, "is even more fantasy-prone than news gathering. In the latter, you are often expected to make bricks without straw, but in the former, to grow lemons without a tree. "He thus retired from spying with some relief...
...characters who have emerged so far, Maclean is the only one who might be assumed to have devoted any serious study to Marx's writings. Burgess's two most prized possessions, which he insisted on showing to everyone, were an inscribed copy of Winston Churchill's war memoirs and a note from Anthony Eden in his own hand thanking Burgess for being so attentive during a visit to Washington. These would scarcely rate as revolutionary trophies. Philby, the only one of the four I knew at all well, he being my wartime boss at M16, never gave...
...million households, over the previous two weeks. Moaned a rival producer in Tehran: "They milked it good." The Iranians eventually eased their entry restrictions, and each network soon had more than 20 staff members in Iran. Said CBS Producer Keith Kay: "We used to cover the Viet Nam War with fewer than that...
...were either to activate a so-called cross default clause and foreclose on the Iranian government in court for the remaining $200 million, or to refloat their share of the loan independently of the U.S. banks. Said one angry European banker: "This is a dangerous escalation of the financial war that American banks are waging against Iran...