Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retired Air Force general sits hour after hour behind a long table, recounting how U.S. officials created a clandestine network to ship arms to Iran and the Nicaraguan contras, conducting what in effect was a secret American foreign policy. In minute detail, he exposes the covert attempts of high officials to circumvent the law. Vinegary and unrepentant, he avows that he was carrying out the policies of his President in an appropriate manner. The President again claims ignorance, saying he is still waiting to find out what his own Administration...
...press and politicians. But now all deals are off. The press can stake out the comings and goings of people at a private town house, as well as the takeoffs and landings of planes at unmarked Central American airstrips. But are there some realms of personal privacy and legitimate covert policy that ought not be exposed? Has the system for screening and picking leaders become so harsh and intrusive as to discourage the best from entering...
...remarkable memory. Casey's skills at deception, in fact, helped him launch his career with the secretive Office of Strategic Services in World War II (he planted spies in Nazi-occupied Europe) and finally brought him his last and highest post, as a CIA director who particularly favored covert operations...
...Only about $3.5 million of the $30 million that Iran paid for U.S. weapons was spent to assist the contras. Another $1 million was spent on other covert activities that Secord would not fully describe, and $2 million is still unaccounted for. Nearly $8 million is sitting in frozen Swiss bank accounts controlled by Secord's business partner, the Iranian-born Albert Hakim. What will eventually happen to this money is uncertain...
...members. "I told this group to go forth and multiply," recalls the colorful Calida, whose office is a veritable arsenal of guns and grenades. "In a week there were 22, then 40, then 70, then 100 . . ." Alsa Masa, now several thousand strong, imposed a system of checkpoints, armed patrols, covert neighborhood surveillance, "tax donations" and more than a little intimidation. N.P.A. members who have failed to present identification quickly at Alsa Masa checkpoints have been shot on the spot. Calida insists that Alsa Masa is law-abiding. He says he gives guns only to those who belong to the Civilian...