Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hold public hearings whenever we can and closed hearings whenever we must. Charges concerning illegal operations against American citizens should be publicly discussed and any unlawful action should be revealed. On the other hand, there are some areas that must be handled in executive session, such as covert operations abroad, the revelation of which would injure our relations with foreign governments or impair sources of information or imperil agents in the field...
...oversight be expanded and covert operations be kept secret...
...requires that any covert operation be revealed to several different congressional committees. As a result, I am told by certain spokesmen of the Administration, covert operations now have been terminated. But I am not one who believes that we can simply forbid all covert actions, because I cannot foresee future circumstances. We must look for ways to limit covert activity to matters that really relate to the security of the country. I believe that we can find a formula that will bring covert activity into line with our traditional principles. For example, there may be a way to require...
...sell arms illegally; Kokin and Cummings, for instance, would run the risk of forfeiting their government licenses and thus losing out on their profitable legal arms trade. In fact, most of today's illegal "gunrunning" is done by governments-such as Libya's and Czechoslovakia's covert supplying of the Irish Republican Army...
Many of Angleton's covert operations after he joined the CIA remain secret. The only people who know what he really did are his superiors and those who worked with him. One exploit that can be told came early hi 1956. In collaboration with a friendly intelligence service, his unit acquired a copy of Nikita Khrushchev's famed denunciation of Stalin to the 20th Party Congress. Angleton and his lieutenants also developed the evidence that helped lead the FBI in 1957 to the KGB agent Colonel Rudolf Abel, who had operated since 1948 from an obscure photographer...