Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embarked on one of the most extraordinary episodes of creative insubordination in the annals of diplomacy. He entered a covert and unauthorized negotiation-within-the-negotiation with his Soviet counterpart in the INF talks, Yuli Kvitsinsky. During a stroll in a forest outside Geneva, the famous "walk in the woods," they reached a tentative compromise. Back in Washington, Perle and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger led a successful campaign to repudiate the deal and reprimand Nitze...
...make the university an Ivory Tower hidden from the pressures of the nation and the nation a similar tower hidden from the pressures of the world. But in this dangerous international environment, we must play the game of the Soviet bloc--which has used all forms of espionage and covert action in its perpetual competition with the United States for world predominance--in order to preserve the freedoms and liberties we enjoy. To think otherwise would be foolhardy and unrealistic, something not unusual to many hiding from the real world behind ivy-covered walls...
...accepting funding from the CIA, Harvard is not risking its academic freedom through association with a secret and covert wing of government. The contract has been checked and double-checked to ensure that the University's rules--the strictest in academia--forbidding censorship and requiring the publication of all results are preserved. "The contract has no leaks," said Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck, a national authority on academic freedom and the problems of government secrecy...
...added that the CIA should not be treated anydifferently because of their covert nature...
Cohen credits the committee with having traced the arms-sales money, something neither the Tower commission nor the Senate intelligence committee was able to do. He notes that the committee discovered the "off-the-shelf" covert operations directed by North and revealed the extent of Administration efforts to fund the contras after Congress had refused further...