Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Advocating "quiet diplomacy," Ford is willing to authorize secret negotiations when he thinks they are necessary and occasional CIA covert operations. He also argues that any U.S. action concerning internal repression in such countries as Iran and South Korea is best advanced "quietly" rather than by public threats to curtail aid or trade. Drawing a distinction between morality and moralizing, Kissinger noted last week that a key test of morality is "what we are able to implement," adding that the Administration has secured the release of "hundreds of prisoners throughout the world" without publicity...
...from $1 billion in fiscal 1970 to $11.6 billion in 1974, but they dropped to $8.4 billion in fiscal 1976. With some hyperbole, Carter also dragged out all the skeletons in the Nixon and Ford administrations' closets-the invasion of Cambodia, the right-wing coup in Chile, the covert support of anti-Communists in Angola, and even...
...regimes have adopted contrasting political postures. In Zaire (pop. 25,600,000), which has been receiving U.S. military and economic aid to counter Soviet influence in neighboring Angola, strongman President Mobutu Sese Seko takes a firm stand against Rhodesia and South Africa in public while carrying on a brisk covert trade (perhaps as much as $100 million a year) with the white regimes. Malawi (pop. 5,100,000) practically flaunts its desire for cordial relations with the white governments. Says the country's U.S.-educated President, Hastings Kamuzu Banda: "I'd trade with the devil...
...caught in open-ended discussions, he clenches his pipe firmly in his teeth-a sign of smoldering irritation. His infrequent outbursts are set off by issues that challenge his convictions. He startled an aide a few months ago by denouncing, in barracks-room language, Congressmen seeking to abolish covert activities of the CIA abroad...
...been one of the most important weapons of American intervention abroad. The bulk of its covert operations and funds have been directed toward interfering with free elections all over the world and toward providing military and financial support for dissident groups favored by American policy makers, such as the neo-fascist Italian general Miceli. The responsibility for these abuses--interfering with elections, directing coups and assassinations, training foreign secret police in torture techniques--lies with the administrations that have directed foreign policy, and particularly with Kissinger during his tenure as National Security Advisor. Hence the CIA cannot be reformed merely...