Word: coverted
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Secret War. The book reports that contrary to the general impression, the CIA devotes about two-thirds of its annual budget of some $750 million to covert operations and only 10% to intelligence gathering. The $750 million, moreover, is merely part of the money spent on the CIA. The Pentagon contributes hundreds of millions of dollars for technical projects that do not show up in the CIA budget. The Air Force, for example, funds the overhead-reconnaissance program -mostly spy satellites-for the entire U.S. intelligence community. Though the CIA conducted a secret war in Laos for more than...
...Author John Marks, 31, a former Foreign Service officer, believe that the agency should not intervene in other nations' affairs in any circumstances. Pointing out the inefficiency of many CIA missions, the authors would restrict the agency to intelligence gathering and strip it of all its covert operations. That argument is sure to be aired fully once the book is published; for now, the CIA is arguing that the book is dangerous on narrower if no less vital grounds. It fears that the book will expose secret operations and covers, jeopardize if not eliminate relations with foreign secret services...
...bright young agent on the way up. After serving with U.S. Army intelligence in West Germany during the early '50s, he returned to Perm State to major in Soviet studies. Because of his background, he was recruited for the CIA. He spent a year in training in covert operations, then became an intelligence analyst, concentrating largely on Soviet military matters...
...implied link between money and merit, Americans are too shrewd to make the comparison absolute. Still, "My money is as good as his" is accepted American doctrine. Where it does not prevail, as in country-club memberships but even more in discriminatory housing, the contrary practice is usually covert, generally awkward, often shamefaced and sometimes illegal. Yet even though the phrase has the required democratic ring, it usually means asserting a common right to spend to achieve an unequal advantage...
...HENRY L. COVERT Boone...