Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE on Intelligence set out to investigate "numerous allegations made about U.S. covert activity in Chile during 1970-73." In a report issued last week, the committee claims to have shown that allegations holding the U.S. largely responsible for the overthrow in 1973 of the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende are false, or at best half true. In fact, the Church Committee's conclusions themselves rest on a series of half-truths and omissions...
...Church Committee demonstrated that three American presidents supported covert action against Allende; that American corporations poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into opposition to Allende, including support to the truckers' strike which played a key role in toppling the regime; and that the CIA itself distributed over $20 million to prevent Allende's election and to overthrow him once he came to power. Nevertheless, the committee claims that the CIA was not directly involved in the 1973 coup...
...favor in Washington throw lavish parties at the Burning Tree Golf Club and produce timely gifts for key politicians. But Gulf Oil Corp. seems to have gone further than most. The giant company (1974 sales: $16.5 billion), now the target of four federal investigations, is accused of operating a covert $10 million slush fund for the benefit of some top politicians at home and abroad. The practice directly defies a federal law that forbids corporate donations to politicians running for national office. As a result of testimony that has recently become public, Gulf's top executives are in deep...
...Secretary had been outraged when the House committee, led by pugnacious New York Democrat Otis Pike, voted to cite him with three counts of contempt of Congress for not obeying its subpoenas to turn over three sets of top-secret documents. They are: 1) State Department recommendations on covert intelligence actions between 1962 and 1972, 2) National Security Council records of the Central Intelligence Agency's covert operations since 1965 and 3) intelligence reports concerning twelve U.S. charges of Soviet violations of the SALT nuclear-arms accord...
...turned out, Capitol Hill gave Kissinger much more cause for worry than did President Ford. The House committee investigating U.S. intelligence operations recommended that the Secretary be cited with three counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over subpoenaed documents on covert intelligence operations. If the full House votes to cite Kissinger, a move that would be unprecedented, the case would go to the courts. Kissinger said last week the President had directed him to withhold the material on the grounds of Executive privilege. The Secretary, visibly upset and reacting strongly, said he regretted the committee...