Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ziegler: I suppose he could say that in the context at the time... still, there's nothing...
...evidence does not indicate how the second profile was put to use. The CIA turned it over to Young in November 1971, along with a letter from Director Richard Helms that stressed that the agency's "involvement in this matter should not be revealed in any context, formal or informal." Helms' concern was quite understandable. The only other American citizen to have been the subject of a CIA psychological profile was Lloyd Bucher, commander of the spy ship Pueblo, which was seized by North Korea in 1968. The CIA's interest in Bucher was legitimately tied to national security...
...seems caught up in the White House philosophy that everything can be handled in a p.r. context. I've been surprised at the number of his public statements...
...have, Boudin and his friends weren't exactly left in stitches after The New York Times decided to publish it in full last Friday with no explanation of its contents, no disclaimer about the profile's accuracy and with no attempt to put the Hunt memo in any historical context. In fact, Boudin thinks that The Times--inadvertently, no doubt--has succeeded where Hunt, John Ehrlichman and Charles Colson have failed: spreading false, irrational, inflamatory rhetoric about him in the mass-circulation media...
...Times--perhaps because of assumptions it makes about its readers or perhaps out of sloppiness--didn't bother to recognize the possibility that people might not see the memorandum for the hack job it is. It never placed the profile in the context of a contrived and systematic attempt to discredit the Ellsberg defense and only in a news story three pages away did it quote anyone as questioning the profile's accuracy. The Times presumed that everyone has realized just how demented Richard Nixon and his government are, and that's not a safe assumption for anyone, let alone...