Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Save Neck. Prosecutor Merrill claimed that Krogh and Young discussed the burglary with Ehrlichman on Aug. 5, then wrote a memo to him on Aug. 11 recommending that "a covert operation be conducted to examine all the papers of Ellsberg's psychiatrist." Ehrlichman has conceded marking this memo "approved . . . if done under your assurance that it is not traceable." After Fielding's office was surveyed by Hunt and Liddy, Merrill claimed, Young and Krogh told Ehrlichman on Aug. 30 that the operation was feasible, and he gave the final go-ahead...
...opening defense arguments, Henry Jones, one of Ehrlichman's two black lawyers (the other is Spencer Boyer), admitted that Ehrlichman had approved a "covert" operation but argued that this was not meant to include anything illegal, like a burglary. As for the memos copied by Young, Jones charged that Young had altered the documents "to save his own neck...
...when the Welles shows a good movie from the '30s that's set in an earlier era, it helps us appreciate more honest modern period films that aren't covert about their modern sensibilities, such as Thieves Like Us or The Conformist. People can read old books without having to feel nostalgic; showing old movies helps people understand them without recourse to nonsensical critical praise about being "nostalgic" or "camp...
Thus concretized on the public record lies the documentation of a systematic, covert corruption of the free reporting that is essential to freedom of the press. If the mind could any longer be boggled, surely this picture of a government plotting in secret to "tear down the institution," "to pound the magazines and the networks," to threaten the media with anti-trust prosecutions and IRS investigations to "change their views," to "plant" columns, to "generate...(and even write) a massive outpouring of letters" where no public impulse to do so existed, to "needle" a publisher, to "pester" a newspaper...
Quiet Offices. To the degree the book is accurate, it illuminates more than any previous expose the fundamental dilemma of using covert activity as a tool in foreign policy, of a secret agency operating in an open society. How are the two to be reconciled? If the CIA is to be held accountable, are the present watchdog functions of congressional committees adequate? In a world of ever-shifting political currents that still present threats to American interests, can the nation conduct its foreign policy in a perfectly open manner without resorting to covert operations? Particularly in a dangerous world where...