Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into buildings that housed offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in downtown Beirut. The main P.L.O. headquarters for Lebanon, on the wide, busy boulevard called the Corniche Mazraa, was wrecked, as was the P.L.O. research center near the Rue Sadat. The office responsible for coordinating al-Fatah's covert terrorist activities inside Israel narrowly escaped heavy damage when the four rockets that had obviously been aimed at it landed instead on a nearby empty apartment. The rockets, which had been mounted inside boxes fastened to the tops of autos parked near the P.L.O. headquarters, amazingly killed no P.L.O. officials...
...Nieman fellows who attended that meeting said last night that Colby declined to discuss specific CIA activities, citing 'national security reasons." They said Colby defended covert CIA activities and the secrecy of the agency's budget on the same grounds...
Colby's remarks came in the course of a conversation during a conference of former CIA agents, government officials and journalists on the CIA and covert actions. The Center for National Security Studies sponsored the Washington conference, which was held this September...
...book outlines CIA activities over the last 25 years. It describes in detail covert CIA operations in Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, and more recently its activities in Chile...
...said CIA Director William Colby evaded the truth on CIA involvement and charged that Congressional leaders acquiesed in witholding information concerning covert acts in Chile...