Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...myth" because the faculty member has no more and no less freedom under the Federal Constitution that the cotton pickers. When the commie fronters yell "Academic freedom" what they mean is that no authority public or private should be permitted to fire them because of their open or covert support of any organ of the communist apparatus. This communist support should not be confused with the objective study of communism in action, which is indeed necessary. No communist supporter or sympathizer can be objective in evaluating our culture or political-economic system because his mission is to destroy that, system...
...ensuing campaign Plan E was the object of charge and counter-charge. "Communistic," cried the politicians, "dictatorial." When the local Communist party came out against this new plan the politicians were forced to change their line of attack. It was the deceitful and covert means, they said, whereby the "Harvard-Brattle Street-Money-Taxpayer-Republican" forces hoped to regain control of the city. The battle even featured a resolution by the City Council that Harvard be expelled from Cambridge and incorporated as a university city...
Though CIA officials do not admit it publicly, the agency was from the start engaged in a wide range of "covert activities": espionage, aid to resistance movements and perhaps sabotage. Armed with all the traditional devices of espionage and a few 20th century improvements, such as plastic explosives and microfilm which can be sealed under the stamp on an envelope, CIA agents spread across the world. Covert activities have a vast glamour, and emphasis on them is effective public-relations policy...
...statement issued by the Legal Aid Bureau does any reference to outside pressure appear. In other words, the members of the Bureau are satisfied to allow the expulsion of one of their number appear to be spontaneous. If such is not the case, full disclosure of any covert pressures must be made...
Evidently, some method for damming up this flood of cheap literature must be established--a method which can avoid the dangers implicit in covert censorship...