Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saying that registration would lead to a draft like "night following day," anti-draft counselor John Judge last night urged students to decide on "covert or overt non-registration" should Congress adopt President Carter's registration proposal...
...goes by without Loeb's patting Reagan on the back while he attacks Kennedy and Bush. Contending in a frontpage article that ex-CIA agents are working in Bush's campaign, Loeb charged that Bush's victory in Iowa had "all the smell of a CIA covert operation." Loeb also played up a charge rehashed in the Los Angeles Times that Bush had not properly reported a contribution of $106,000 from a Nixon slush fund for his unsuccessful Senate campaign in Texas in 1970. DIRTY, DIRTY, DIRTY headlined the Union Leader. "I am clean, clean, clean...
...Senate Intelligence Committee reopened debate this week on the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) freedom to conduct covert activities on university campuses...
Apart from its covert schemes, the FBI's new interest in political corruption has concentrated on at least one other U.S. Senator: Nevada Democrat Howard W. Cannon. A court-authorized FBI wiretap on the telephone of Allen F. Dorfman, a former Teamster consultant who had long maintained influence over the huge pension funds of the various Teamster unions centered in Chicago, led agents to question whether Dorfman might have enticed Cannon into shaping a bill deregulating the trucking industry into a form more acceptable to the Teamsters. As chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Cannon was a key figure...
...proposed National Intelligence Act of 1980 has Jimmy Carter's strong backing. The charter's most important provision would allow the CIA to conduct covert operations if the President, after consulting with the Nation al Security Council, found them necessary to protect "important" U.S. interests overseas. Such operations have never been formally banned, but a 1974 law had the effect of requiring the President to notify eight congressional committees about them in "a timely fashion." The risks of a leak were so great that covert op erations were severely limited. The new bill would require prior notification...