Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week. Colby was frustrated because congressional sources had leaked information he had given them in secret, making front-page news out of the U.S. plan to contribute $6 million to anti-Communist parties in Italy (see WORLD). When it was suggested that the CIA should give up such covert operations, Colby asked: "You mean hamstring ourselves and watch the world go to pieces...
Angry Ford. Under a 1974 measure requiring the CIA to tell Congress about its covert operations, Colby briefed six separate House and Senate committees in December about the agency's plans for Italy. The leak sprang quickly. On Dec. 26, the McClatchy newspaper chain in California reported part of the story, which attracted no attention. Following their own leads, the New York Times and the Washington Post published more detailed versions last week. President Ford authorized Press Secretary Ron Nessen to describe him as "angry" about the leak...
...questions involving the CIA will confront the new session of Congress. The agency argues that last month's assassination of Richard S. Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens, resulted from the printing of his name by the Fifth Estate, a Washington-based group dedicated to exposing covert U.S. intelligence activities. Colby favors a law that would make it a crime for a former CIA employee to reveal secrets he learned at the agency. But liberals in Congress and most journalists are certain to oppose any such sweeping gag rule...
...intelligence community and its relations with Congress. Clearly, Congress should oversee the work of the agency to prevent any abuses of power. Even more clearly, the secret spending of U.S. funds to bolster democratic parties abroad, especially those threatened by foreign-financed Communist parties, is the kind of covert action the CIA should be able to undertake on a selective basis...
...FORD administration's insistence on continuing military and diplomatic intervention in Angola despite Senate opposition represents a deplorable refusal to submit foreign policy to properly informed public opinion. The covert character of early U.S. aid in Angola was a deliberate effort to present the American public with a fait accompli. Although American intervention has now been made public, Ford and Kissinger continue to repudiate any notion of democratic participation in foreign policy decision making by their use of discretionary funds to aid anti-MPLA factions. The House should reaffirm the Senate's opposition to such aid in its upcoming session...