Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Stockwell, the highest-ranking former CIA official to speak critically of the agency, told a supportive Sanders Theater audience of 200 that the CIA's covert actions "disrupt the political and social fabric" of developing countries and threaten "the fate of the earth...
Stockwell, who directed the CIA's covert war in Angola before quitting in 1977, reiterated some of the ideas set forth in his recent book. "In Search of Enemies," denouncing the U.S.'s involvement in a number of Third World nations. He also criticized President Reagan's interventions in Nicaragua and Grenada...
...negotiated settlement remains only a distant possibility. In the meantime, the Reagan Administration remains committed to a strategy of countering Nicaraguan-sponsored insurgency with covert CIA support for anti-Sandinista rebels. That policy has drawn increasing attacks on Capitol Hill from legislators who believe the real aim is to destabilize and, if possible, overthrow the Nicaraguan regime. Led by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Boland, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, opponents in the House tried to block money for further covert aid to the rebels. A Senate bill, however, retained funding for continued covert support. After a compromise reached last week...
...fall. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) went even further, supporting U.S. arms shipments to Israel for Zionist slaughter of the Palestinian people. Secondly, the reformists want to harp on Reagan's violation of "international law" and ignore or cheerlead his "war on communism." The Reaganites glory in "illegal" "covert" actions like the raids on Nicaragua so long as they are successful. The bellicose Democratic Party "doves" raise a stink over "illegalities" only so they can wield their constitutional right to declare war as they recently did, authorizing the Marines to remain in Lebanon for at least another 18 months...
...sphere for years. Nor is the problem confined to superpowers. The Sandinista government of Nicaragua provides tactical aid and support for the Marxist-Leninist rebels of nearby El Salvador, and the U.S., of course, is backing anti-Sandinista rebels. (Last week the U.S. Senate approved $19 million in continuing covert aid for the Nicaraguan insurgents.) Says Detlev Vagts, professor of law at Harvard: "I don't think international law has got a grip on the issue of covert activity, in which you arm and support rebels within a country...