Word: coverte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unwitting tourguide is Richard Helms, who rose quietly but steadily for nearly 30 years through the Agency's ranks, responsible for many of its most sensitive--and later embarrassing--covert operations. As chief of the clandestine operations division in the '50s, as a Deputy Director in the early '60s, and finally, from 1966 to 1973, as head of the CIA, Helms' efforts spanned the globe--from Chile to Cuba to the Congo to Southeast Asia to Italy and Eastern Europe, and always, always, to the USSR: anticommunism is the lifeblood of the CIA. In 1977 Helms explained what had worried...
Once again, the government and its overeager classifiers have invoked the magic words "national security" as an excuse for compulsive secrecy, as they did in the CIA covert operations and Pentagon Papers disclosure. And once again, they have suffered a telling and well-deserved blow to their credibility...
...hell of a lot easier than destabilizing our enemies, and undoing a friendly regime that we have lost patience with is a lot easier than putting it back together again." So some of the men around John F. Kennedy learned in 1963 when they decided to authorize covert U.S. backing for an army coup against South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, whose anti-Buddhist repressions, they felt, were contributing to the political turmoil of the country and hampering the war effort. Diem was killed in the coup. What followed was a series of military Presidents who were...
...former editor at the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's and Ladies' Home Journal, is not satisfied with shadows and rumors. He retraces every false step, sparing no one and no institution. The plot was conceived and crafted at the CIA largely by a cerebral chief of covert operations, Richard Bissell Jr. It had been passed on to President Kennedy by an unenthusiastic-but not disapproving-President Eisenhower. In the naive belief that U.S. involvement could be concealed, Kennedy kept telling the CIA to "reduce the noise level" of the planned air strikes, and he kept scaling down...
...most important finding of the commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Rudolph Erasmus, was that Vorster was fully aware of a covert operation by his former Minister of Information, Cornelius Mulder, to spend tens of millions of dollars in an illegal and secret effort to influence the news media. Retracting its own preliminary report that had exonerated Vorster, the commission concluded that he had lied in sworn testimony concerning his role in the whole affair. One witness testified that he had once asked Vorster whether the government itself was being blackmailed by Eschel Rhoodie, one of Mulder...