Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probable chain of events follows, making the incumbent Republican President more frustrated with his country's helplessness. Eventually he decides to conduct covert military operations against the Columbian kingpins. Sound more familiar...
...result of task-force recommendations, the State Department was designated as the lead agency in combating terrorism, with responsibility for coordinating other Government departments. At the CIA, a new covert counterterrorism force was set up to combine intelligence from other groups such as the National Security Agency and the armed forces. Any raid to rescue the hostages would require pinpointing where they are held, but the ability of U.S. intelligence to discover the whereabouts of the hostages is still limited. Terrorist cells are small, often based on family ties, and very hard to crack. The killing...
...indicators inside the device. Having destroyed them, he would not be able to examine them in order to duplicate and replace them. Sources say the CIA had also installed an "event recorder" in its area that recorded the time when the main CIA alarm went off. Finally, there were covert "traps" on both the CIA and State Department communications equipment designed to indicate any tampering...
...years Dos Santos had denounced Savimbi as a traitor for accepting covert military aid from the U.S. and South Africa, and insisted he could make peace with Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), but never with its leader. The dislike was mutual. Savimbi never ceased deriding "Dos Santos and his gang" as puppets for introducing "Russian- Cuban imperialism" into Angola...
...National Security Council staffer, as he claimed in his defense, following orders when he led a secret effort to provide assistance to the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of congressional bans? Were present and former Government officials, including Ronald Reagan and George Bush, involved in a cover-up of the covert campaign? Why were documents suggesting that the former and current Presidents were more deeply enmeshed in the affair than either has acknowledged not given to congressional investigating committees...