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...strongly believe in covert operations. I have no hesitancy to say so. I don't know how a President could conduct foreign policy without a degree of covert operations. [As for the safeguards], fairly sizable numbers in the Congress are today given information about covert operations-six committees. That is a lot more than used to get it when I was there. Second, as far as I know, no covert operations that have been undertaken by this Administration have involved any commitment beyond the precise operations authorized by me with my signature. Now with any Administration that is deceptive...
Colby and Kissinger are convinced that 1) the U.S. must continue to conduct some clandestine operations abroad, and 2) it is impossible to carry out such missions if Congress, once briefed, reveals them to the press. (For Colby's views on the CIA'S role, see following interview.) In an effort to reduce the likelihood of a leak, Senator Frank Church's intelligence committee will recommend to Congress that the CIA be required to brief only two new committees-one in the House and one in the Senate-set up to oversee agency operations. A more significant...
...Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights unless the Council scheduled a review of the Middle East situation and allowed the P.L.O. to take part. The presence of the P.L.O. prompted an Israeli boycott of the Council session; Premier Yitzhak Rabin's Cabinet unanimously resolved "not to conduct negotiations with terrorist organizations in any forum." A high Israeli official agreed that even "mentioning Palestinians makes them a political reality...
...addition, 400 men of the predominantly Protestant Ulster Defense Regiment were deployed in the county. In a more drastic move, some 150 men of the elite Special Air Services Regiment (SAS) will be sent to Ulster. The dispatch of this counter insurgency strike force, which is specially trained to conduct guerrilla operations behind enemy lines, indicated that for the first time since the troubles began six years ago, the British army will actively attempt to seek out and destroy the terrorists...
...Jean Mayer theory: "I think that the way most people conduct their lives, there are periods when they're involved in a variety of things. For a number of years I just did research and whatever teaching went with...