Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as the tales of covert diplomacy continued to emanate from Washington, Tehran and elsewhere, the debilitating and indecisive six-year-old war between Iran and Iraq dragged on. Twice last week Iraqi warplanes struck deep into Iran, hitting first a petrochemical complex at the port of Bandar Khomeini and then an oil refinery and a power station in Isfahan. In response, Tehran Radio announced that Iranian artillery units would retaliate by shelling targets in southern Iraq. The station warned Iraqi civilians to evacuate Basra, Iraq's second largest city, as well as Umm Qasr, at the head...
Wright said Casey assured members of the House Intelligence Committee that there are no other cases in which the CIA has been ordered to withhold information about a covert operation from Congress...
...self-defeating to trade arms for hostages because this leads to more hostage-taking. On a broader level, this kind of covert dealing undermines the moderates" in the Middle East, she said...
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY General William Bradford Reynolds has decided that the Reagan Revolution has not extended far enough into the judiciary. In a speech at the University of Missouri last month, Reynolds indicated that the Administration's covert war on liberal judges was a thing of the past. Instead, he began a direct frontal assault...
...Kalb affair was reported by the press as a victory for the press; the analysis did not run deeper. No one bothered to ask Kalb why he agreed to sign on with an Administration notorious for covert activity in the first place. No one seemed interested in Kalb's motive for resigning or his involvement in the misinformation scheme to begin with. The press chose to take Kalb at his word--a practice journalists are usually uncomfortable with...