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This was in response to charges that the CIA had suborned an officer in Germany’s intelligence service.

From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2014

Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd, As if she had suborned some to swear False allegations to o'erthrow his state?

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

The character of the great Magyar came out stainless and triumphant—to the chagrin of suborned scribblers, and the despots who had suborned them.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

Triumph came, but only as the precursor of defeat; for her enemy, ruined and dishonoured, had suborned the affection of her daughter, and made her house desolate in the very hour of victory.

From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

Jaquetta and I persuaded ourselves that he had discovered that Perrault had suborned witnesses, or done something that would falsify the whole trial.

From Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative by Yonge, Charlotte Mary