Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favor of covert intelligence operations abroad...
...strongly believe in covert operations. I have no hesitancy to say so. I don't know how a President could conduct foreign policy without a degree of covert operations. [As for the safeguards], fairly sizable numbers in the Congress are today given information about covert operations-six committees. That is a lot more than used to get it when I was there. Second, as far as I know, no covert operations that have been undertaken by this Administration have involved any commitment beyond the precise operations authorized by me with my signature. Now with any Administration that is deceptive...
...Scouts. The trouble, McCloy found, started in 1959, when Gulfs then chief executive officer W.K. Whiteford decided that his company needed more "political muscle." To get it, he ordered that a covert fund be set up. In 1960 the Bahamas Exploration Co. Ltd. in Nassau was transformed from an insignificant subsidiary into a firm that could "launder" Gulfs money and pass it along to politicians. Whiteford insisted that the fund be kept secret from the Mellon family and from the executives that he called the "Boy Scouts"-E.D. Brockett and Bob R. Dorsey. To the directors at last week...
...went to Sweden and then to Italy, where I focused on Italian politics: the rise of the Communist party, the opening to the left during the '50s. It was a kind of a postgraduate course. Frankly, I think good covert operations well handled, well timed, can solve a problem at an early stage while it's still small...
...shows that the government now really intends to do something about terrorism in the province," said William Craig, head of the Protestant Vanguard Party. Catholics, on the other hand, were wary; for years the I.R.A. has charged (and the British army has denied) that SAS units have regularly operated covert assassination squads in the province. A leading Catholic politician, Austin Currie, warned that some people will see the presence of the SAS as an anti-Catholic move unless soldiers are also sent in against Protestant terrorists. One clear danger was that the action will not intimidate the I.R.A. so much...