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- Dirty tricks are clandestine activities carried out by a covert-action group to discredit, destabilize, or eliminate an opposing regime, one of its agencies or departments, or an individual. A type of covert operation, dirty tricks include everything from the spreading of false rumors to sabotage, overthrow, and assassination.
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Jan 26, 2019 · Analysis. Roger Stone: a master of the political dirty trick. Ed Pilkington in New York. Beginning with Richard Nixon in the early 1970s, the former adviser for Donald Trump has made a...
Jul 11, 2019 · A brief summary of some of the dirty tricks in American elections shows that they tend to have the following objectives: create doubt around a candidate’s character; confuse the voters about...
Mar 3, 2013 · T en years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. Katharine Gun, a shy and studious 28-year-old who spent her ...
- Martin Bright
May 6, 2021 · In many ways, his memoir suggests that Atwater’s tactics were a bridge between the old Republican Party of the Nixon era, when dirty tricks were considered a scandal, and the new Republican ...
- Jane Mayer
May 2, 2019 · 2016 US presidential election. John Adams. John Quincy Adams. Apartheid dirty tricks. Slander. John F. Kennedy. Mueller report. Libel. Founding Fathers. Amid all the Mueller...
Jan 25, 2019 · Jan. 25, 2019. WASHINGTON — For two years, Roger J. Stone Jr. has seemed like the most obvious suspect in an old-fashioned mystery, the self-described dirty trickster taunting the special...
Dirty tricks are clandestine activities carried out by a covert-action group to discredit, destabilize, or eliminate an opposing regime, one of its agencies or departments, or an individual. A type of covert operation, dirty tricks include everything from the spreading of false rumors to sabotage, overthrow, and assassination.
