But then he embarked on his main thesis, which was that the entire Western intelligence system in Britain, France, Germany and America had been deeply penetrated by the KGB and systematically manipulated with clever disinformation put out by Moscow.

Rather, this story is about how Hollinger was systematically manipulated and used by its controlling shareholders for their sole benefit, and in a manner that violated every concept of fiduciary duty.

As Berlinski shows, Leibniz was aware of the idea's power in the 17th century when he proposed his "calculus of reason," a system of symbols, he dreamed, that could be systematically manipulated to answer any question.

Angie Debo's landmark work, And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes (1940), detailed how the allotment policy of the Dawes Commission and the Curtis Act of 1898 was systematically manipulated to deprive the Native Americans of their lands and resources.

Under corporatism, it is not, instead being systematically manipulated to deliver goods to political constituencies.

In the second instance this is achieved by projecting the image of the naive Nizan systematically manipulated by the ruthless bureaucrats of the party machine.

Union officials said top officials of the agency, in the interests of promoting what they called cultural diversity, systematically manipulated Civil Service rules to promote black and Hispanic supervisors who did not perform as well as whites on Civil Service tests.