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...controversial Boston University journalism program to train Afghan rebels was part of a covert CIA propaganda effort, according to a published report this week...
...Joachim Maitre, dean of the communications school, said he had not previously been aware of any covert funding until the CIA program was disclosed publicly...
Wright, it develops, was the victim of a trap laid by his longtime enemy Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams. The plan was hatched when Wright criticized CIA covert actions during a meeting with contra leaders two weeks ago. His comments were passed on to Abrams, who leaked them to the ultra- conservative Washington Times. It was a Times reporter who initially questioned Wright about CIA activities...
...against my moral grain, to be taping somebody. I can remember standing down here in this building ((the White House)) when I heard about the White House tapes, and felt -- betrayed means that somebody owes me something and thus -- and I think it's broader than that." CIA covert actions do not arouse the same misgivings in this occasionally, dutifully ruthless...
Bush, a former CIA director, supports Reagan's policy of using covert action and military aid to assist anti-Communist rebels. But while Reagan ennobled -- and romanticized -- the policy by calling its recipients "freedom fighters," his more prosaic Vice President talks about the problems of waging "low-intensity conflict." Bush wants to continue funding the Nicaraguan contras, but, says Kim Holmes of the conservative Heritage Foundation, "I don't think he would ever have called them the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers." If Reagan's beau ideal of the swashbuckling American good guy is Oliver North, Bush seems...