“ North had coordinated a secret contra supply operation from his office in the basement of the White House, in legal defiance of existing legislation but with the support of senior administration officials ... North had also been deeply involved in shaping contra military and political strategy and in off-the-books schemes to pay for the supply flights and the munitions they carried.

Additionally, he himself and Panchen Lama of Dirgacha wrote a secret letter ot East India Company seeking military assistance.

Other researchers have documented the contribution made from other Warsaw Pact intelligence agencies to the fledgling Sandinista government including the East German Stasi, by using recently declassified documents from Berlin as well as from former Stasi spymaster Markus Wolf who described the Stasi's assistance in the creation of a secret police force modeled on East Germany's

The Underground Railroad consisted of meeting points, secret routes, transportation, and safe houses, and assistance provided by abolitionist sympathizers.

It concluded the ( also secret ) Treaty of the Escorial with Spain, which included promises of French assistance in the Spanish conquest of Naples and Sicily.

The outbreak of hostilities with England in 1294 was the inevitable result of the competitive expansionist monarchies, triggered by a secret Franco-Scottish pact of mutual assistance against Edward I, who was Philip's brother-in-law, having married Philip's sister Margaret ; inconclusive campaigns for the control of Gascony to the southwest of France were fought in 1294 – 98 and 1300 – 03.

The CIA provided assistance to the fundamentalist insurgents through the Pakistani secret services, Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ), in a program called Operation Cyclone.

The Underground Railroad consisted of meeting points, secret routes, transportation, and safe houses and assistance provided by abolitionist sympathizers.

Long before France's open entry into the war, Vergennes approved of the Pierre Beaumarchais's plan for secret French assistance.

With the secret assistance of Scrappy, he eventually ends up wrongfully arrested for sheep theft and taken to Bugarup, where he is hoping to find a ship to escape on.

Harkonnen has an agent in the Atreides household and the secret assistance of the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV ; the Baron manages to kill Leto, and the Duke's concubine Lady Jessica and son Paul are left to die in the open desert.

With the help of the Committee of Secret Correspondence, established by the U. S. Continental Congress to promote the American cause in France, and his standing as a model of republican simplicity within French society, Benjamin Franklin was able to gain a secret loan and clandestine military assistance from the Foreign Minister but was forced to put off negotiations on a formal alliance while the French government negotiated a possible alliance with Spain.

Fallon makes a secret business deal with Blake's old friend and more-powerful business rival Cecil Colby ( Lloyd Bochner ), marrying his nephew Jeff ( John James ) to secure Cecil's financial assistance for her father.

With assistance from Bear, who poses as a butler named " Mr. Belvedere ", Jim nearly succeeds in keeping the activities a secret, until Michelle's mother opens a closet door and is shocked to find Kevin inside, stripped to his boxers and tied to a chair ( following a kinky game with the strippers ).

Under increasing pressure from the Portuguese secret police ( PIDE ), Savimbi left Portugal for Switzerland with the assistance of Portuguese and French communists and other sympathizers, and eventually wound up in Lausanne.

While these are all true, Palpatine had covertly influenced and created these events with assistance from his secret apprentices ..

Francis then signed a secret agreement with Pope Clement VII, who pledged not to assist Charles in exchange for Francis's assistance with the conquest of Naples.

Attempts to include Inner Mongolia into the new state failed for various reasons, including the military weakness of the Inner Mongols to achieve their independence, the lack of Russian assistance to them ( Russia was bound in Inner Mongolian affairs by secret treaties with Japan ), and the lack of support from a part Inner Mongolian nobles and the higher clergy.

There he set up shop producing jennies in secret for one Mr Shipley, with the assistance of a joiner named Thomas James.

In the late 1950s, the U. S. government approached The Greenbrier for assistance in creating a secret emergency relocation center to house Congress in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust.

However, under a secret agreement with Goguryeo, Silla troops, arriving on the pretense of offering assistance, attacked the exhausted Baekje army and took possession of the entire Han River valley.

: The secret of Hegel may be indicated at shortest thus: As Aristotle — with considerable assistance from Plato — made explicit the abstract Universal that was implicit in Socrates, so Hegel — with less considerable assistance from Fichte and Schelling — made explicit the concrete Universal that was implicit in Kant.

Kuusinen and Molotov signed a mutual assistance agreement and a secret protocol on 2 December 1939.

One member of the coup plotters that escaped arrest requested assistance from the CIA, and was paid $ 35, 000, so " The CIA did, in fact, pay " hush " money to those directly responsible for the Schneider assassination -- and then covered up that secret payment for thirty years.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

He said that his information was so secret that he would not be able to confide in me the origin of his pipeline tip.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.

Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

The more I talked with him, the more convinced I became that that was the secret of their riotous blooming.

The result was an agreement that the Lublin Government should be `` reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from the Poles abroad '', and pledged to hold `` free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot ''.

The burden of his secret was pressing down on him, as it was on Lieutenant Beckstrom and his six enlisted men.

After all, Alger Hiss, subsequently convicted of perjury in denying that he gave secret State Department documents to Soviet agents, was at Yalta.

His smile was quick, and his eyes held some promised secret that made my knees go limp.

Adam, beset by changing defense conditions and the open secret that he was part of the new corporation, couldn't deliver from his end.

In a camp, instead of shipboard, hiding the secret was easier.

But the secret itself was just as hard.