Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington. Two years ago, Gray told TIME that he checks with his "good friend," CIA Director William Casey, before taking on clients who might be inimical to U.S. interests. It is unclear just what Casey could have said this time, since the CIA is currently funneling $15 million in covert aid to Savimbi to help his rebellion against the Angolan regime. Last week outraged Savimbi backers chained themselves to a railing in Gray's posh offices in Georgetown and had to be forcibly removed by local police...
Believe it or not, the administration's designs for Angola are even worse. State Department officials acknowledged last week that the U.S. will give $15 million in "covert" aid to Angolan rebels led by Jonas Savimbi. The rebels are fighting against the Cuban-backed Angolan government...
Until the CIA realizes that an abundance of classified material, covert funding and censorship have no place in institutions that depend and thrive on openness and freedom, Harvard professors must understand that contracts with the agency are inappropriate. As Bok and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence review the university's outside research regulations, they should make it absolutely clear that no Harvard professor should make research, consulting or other contracts with the CIA or similar agencies when there are strings attached...
...committee's investigations revealed that the FBI and CIA were hiring "racketeers and gangsters to carry out covert activities" and found that the FBI had assigned agents to civil rights leader Martin L. King Jr., Miller says...
...investigations resulted in guidelines for covert activities, the establishment of Congressional oversight of the CIA and Congressional access to secret information...