Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael J. Harrington '58 (D-Mass) charged yesterday at a Law School Forum that high U.S. officials withheld information from the American public on covert activities in Chile...
Speaking before a crowd of 200, Harrington said the foreign policy of the United States was "all out economic, political, and covert military aggression towards Chile's Allende government...
America needs strong, religious patriots like the CIA's Colby defending democracy and freedom throughout the world. As for covert operations, reality dictates that we must sometimes interfere with the internal affairs of other sovereign nations for their own good. After all, "they" certainly do it. An eye for an eye. Frank Meissner Cape Elizabeth...
...mire of political mendacity. The large question is whether the U.S. can be both an imperial power and a democracy. Imperial-minded men are afflicted with a lust for secrecy that feeds their overweening pride in power. If the CIA sticks to intelligence gathering and gives up its covert operations, both the need and the appetite for secrecy might well be curbed. This proposal cuts to the political left as well as to the right. It means that the CIA should not simply switch sides and bat the good guys (read liberal or revolutionary) for a change. We should...
President Ford's glib defense of the CIA's covert involvement in the internal political affairs of Chile represents a remarkable rejection of our professed foreign policy goals. One wonders how he squares such tactics with the often-cited rationale for our involvement in Viet Nam: to allow national self-determination...