Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anthony Russo was thrown out of court (see page 28), unnamed Justice Department officials said that Nixon twice in the past three weeks had tried to keep the department from informing Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. that the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist had been broken into by covert agents operating on orders from people in the White House. Nixon reluctantly agreed to pass along this information only after high Justice Department officials repeatedly advised him that the Los Angeles court had every right to know...
...Haldeman was said by some federal investigators to control a secret cash fund, which was used to pay off the seven men arrested in the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee last June to keep them from implicating higher officials. He also was reported to have authorized a covert "dirty-tricks" drive against Democratic presidential candidates. As for Ehrlichman, in addition to his actions in the Ellsberg case, he had condoned the destruction of some files taken from the office of one of the Watergate wiretappers...
State of Siege. A film of major significance: Costa-Gavras (Z, The Confession) powerfully indicts covert American action to support Latin American dictatorships. Yves Montand plays a character who represents Daniel Mitrione -- the AID officer killed by Tupamaro insurgents in 1970 -- but emphasized his kidnapping less than his previous activities: training the Uruguayan police, teaching torture, repression, use of explosives. The film is committed, not biased -- and based to a surprisingly large degree on public information. 1973. (At the Charles Cinema, Boston...
Paramilitary operations are being scaled down. In South Viet Nam, the CIA's role in the "Phoenix"-or counterterror-program has already been phased out. The program used CIA agents to advise the South Vietnamese in the "neutralization," or killing, of Viet Cong officials. Such covert activities are under the CIA'S deputy director of operations, currently William Colby, 53, a former ambassador who was in charge of pacification in Viet Nam from...
...many G.O.P. stalwarts in all walks of life were highly critical of Nixon's decision merely to authorize curt denials through White House spokesmen rather than speak openly and fully. Besides the single court-proven act of spying at the Watergate, there are now broader charges of a covert and systematic attempt by Nixon's re-election officials to disrupt the campaigns of potential Democratic opponents in last year's presidential election...