3. espionage, spying, surveillance, information gathering, counter-intelligence, undercover work Why was military intelligence so lacking? Quotations"Intelligence is characterised by a natural incomprehension of life" [Henri Bergson L'Évolution Créatrice]"Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what ...
If youinquireorenquireabout something, you ask for information about it. There is no difference in meaning between these words.Inquireis more common, especially in American English. Weinquiredabout the precise circumstances surrounding the arrest. ...
: to direct the business or activities of : manage, conduct run a factory d : to employ or supervise in espionage run an agent 7 a : to be full of or drenched with streets ran blood b : contain, assay 8 a : to cause to move or flow in a specified way or into ...
espionage(ĕsˈpēənäzhˌ), the act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another. Industrial espionage—the theft of patents and processes from business fir...
Disinformation is very powerful, destructive, and divisive, and is a common tool of espionage. Countries often have an interest in intentionally spreading fake information to their rival nations, as the Soviet Union and United States did during the Cold War, for instance. When a country or group...
Narratives about Mata Hari revived ancient fears of women's erotic power, a theme that reflected concerns about women's changing social and economic status. But the enduring interest in Mata Hari, and therefore the meaning connected to her story, formed in the crucible of the Great War, ...
When you can’t tell the truth without bringing trouble upon yourself, there must be a reason: truth is dangerous to the authorities, so truth is demonized as disinformation, false news, Russian disinformation, espionage, offensive, racist, domestic terrorism. Little wonder that truth is disappeari...
So, although I wasn’t able to cross very many off the list this month, I should be able to make up for it soon. We’re also only 9 weeks into the year, meaning my average has been two books a week! Here we go — completed books in February: ...
A second Red Scare emerged when Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and received the death penalty. As part of the Treaty of San Francisco, 49 countries signed a peace treaty in 1951 with Japan. [Pictured: 159th Artillery Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment...
The independent online newspaper did not accept advertising but “cut a wide swath” (Boston Globe), with “hard-hitting reporting” (Fairness & Accuracy in Media), that “broke a string of scoops” (The Guardian), that were “on the mark and well documented” (Washington Post)....