Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unhappy with this regimen, Peter finds a covert ally in Katarina, a girl two classes ahead of him who has lost both her parents over the past year and grown understandably rebellious as a result. And then Peter is given responsibility for August, a new arrival who has murdered both his parents. "He is chaos," Katarina says, wondering why August has been admitted. "If their plan is order, why have they taken...
Members of Congress who oversee the CIA viewed the episode as a characteristic case of arrogance within the agency's Directorate of Operations, the branch in charge of covert missions. And, said a White House official, "What we can't understand is why Woolsey keeps loyally defending an operations directorate that keeps thumbing its nose at him. He needs to clean house." Critics will gain ammunition from the fresh details contained in classified documents. Among them...
...facetious suggestion that the CIA be abolished, the commission might recommend slashing the agency's $3 billion budget and 20,000- person staff and giving some of its intelligence-gathering functions to the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency or State Department while turning over the running of many covert operations to the Pentagon...
...1950s, Bechtel developed close links with the Central Intelligence Agency. The firm and the government together sent covert operatives on overseas intelligence missions--to determine political trends in Israel and the practices of the Mossadeq government in Iran (that regime was later overthrown in a CIA-staged coup, shortly after it nationalized...
...Saudis and others don't realize what a tremendous mistake they're making. A peacefully existing Palestinian state could defuse many of the conflicts that have wracked the Middle East for the last fifty years. The oil sheiks could stop putting their money into weapons for themselves and covert terrorist cells, though it's not clear that they need any more money for general consumption. Helping the Palestinians could also be an important step in pressuring Syria to maintain peaceful relations with Israel. The Syrians are also in territorial negotiations with the Israelis, though Prime Minister Hafez el-Assad...