Word: activists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally U. S. financiers approve the activist, acquisitive qualities of Chileans, and have dealt hugely and profitably with nearly all of Chile's able and kinetic dictators. The last of these,' Colonel Carlos Ibanez who is only incidentally President of Chile, has cleverly adopted the Anglo-Saxon technique of calling his opponents "Communists" and dealing with them as though they were desperadoes. For example the Dictator deported as "dangerous reds" (TIME, March 21, 1927) a venerable judge of the Chilean Supreme Court and several financiers who opposed his views...
Weicker made public a series of memos which he said showed the systematic abuse of the IRS, starting with the creating in 1969 of a secret task force to collect tax information on activist groups...
Weicker said the IRS memo on the formation of the special intelligence task force discussed various means by which the tax laws could be used to attack what it described variously as activist, ideological, radical, militant, or subversive groups...