Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watched the buildup carefully, monitoring it with infrared body-heat detectors mounted in planes, "sniffer" helicopters able to locate hidden groups of men by their sweat, and covert, long-range reconnaissance teams operating in the jungles. Three weeks ago, the U.S. began pouring reinforcements into Dak To, joining the battle for access to the Highlands before the North Vietnamese were ready. By last week, as the fighting went on, some 10,000 allied troops had entered the battle and in 18 days had killed 764 Communist soldiers v. 136 U.S. dead. It became clear that the Communists were not going...
Walzer agreed that it would be difficult to draw guidelines by which recruiters would be forbidden on campus. "One can make a better case for overt cooperation with the Selective Service than for covert cooperation with the CIA," he said. "It gets harder to draw the line if we include each agencies as the Peace Corps...
Partly through awe, partly through fear, partly because Gordon will not take no for an answer, a long and covert chain of news sources in and around Detroit's city government provide him with muck to rake. Working newsmen abhor him, as much for his beats and his seemingly unlimited sources within the bowels of the city as for his cocky personality and flamboyant journalism...
...power lay (at CIA headquarters) in Langley. The first person to be dialed in time of trouble was the head of Covert Action No. 5," he added...
After the Central Intelligence Agency's covert financing of the National Student Association and other groups was exposed seven weeks ago, Lyndon Johnson reacted with the standard political ploy of appointing a committee to investigate. In this case, at least, the President was not merely taking evasive action. When the committee turned in its report to him last week, Johnson immediately acted on its recommendation that CIA be prohibited by year's end from funding any educational, philanthropic or cultural organization...