The XYZ Affair Refers to

The XYZ affair refers to

A) the effort of three unidentified French businessmen to arrange a meeting between U.S. ambassador Pinckney and the French government in return for a bribe.
B) an assassination plot against President Adams, which was discovered when the Secret Service cracked a complex alphanumeric code.
C) allegations that President Adams had exchanged political favors for an entire laundry list of illegal profits and gifts.
D) Hamilton's suggestion that Aaron Burr was indeed illiterate, who in return for this insult demanded satisfaction in a duel in which Hamilton got killed.