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MISSING. WILLIAM COLBY, 76, former CIA director. Daring World War II intelligence operative, controversial overseer of Vietnam-era covert activities, Colby was an ironic choice to restore the CIA's reputation in the post-Watergate era. Hopes that he will be found alive have dimmed since the discovery of his capsized canoe a mile from his Maryland home...
Harvard's KKK is sure to find support from their natural allies among conservative and right-wing students. It will not be too hard to persuade some of them to switch from promoting covert prejudice to endorsing overt racism. For example, fans of The Bell Curve are potential converts. Although it will be a bitter struggle, Harvard's Ku Klux Klan must organize...
During the four years since, intelligence sources tell TIME, the U.S. government has waged an intensive covert battle to prevent Gaddafi from finishing his new factory. And to a degree, the highly secret campaign--known within the CIA as the "Rabta-II Operation"--has succeeded. Gaddafi wanted Rabta-II to be producing chemicals by last year, but construction is far behind schedule. That's because CIA officers and State Department diplomats have disrupted the global network Libya set up to smuggle in foreign workers and equipment for the project. But Clinton aides concede Gaddafi remains determined to finish the facility...
DOUGLAS WALLER got interested in reporting on covert operations seven years ago when he covered the U.S. invasion of Panama and the Persian Gulf War. He quickly learned that ferreting out secrets calls for equal parts of patience and perseverance. It can take years to gain the trust of intelligence officers and months to verify the information they provide. Such was the case with this week's story about the CIA's efforts to block construction of an underground chemical-weapons plant in Libya. "This kind of story never gets dumped in your lap," says TIME's national-security correspondent...
...fierce energy of passive aggression drives--and explains--adolescence; in its grandiose moments it pulverizes empires. In the Soviet Union hundreds of millions of passive aggressives created a vast, vodka-soaked culture of subversive inefficiency, sly refusal and covert nonproduction that ultimately brought down the stolid slab of Marxism-Leninism...