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This week's fourth installment in the Nixon-Frost series will cover the ex-President's tax problems, his assets, the role of the CIA in covert operations (including Chile), Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation, Nixon's final days in office and his pardon...
...after months of trials, tribulations and press coverage, that sign is down and another discreetly reads "Unification Church," completing the path from covert to open recruitment of members that the church has traveled in other cities...
Private-enterprise payments to foreign businessmen are "bribery." CIA covert payments to heads of state are "foreign aid by other means" [Feb. 28]. Come on, let's play the game fair. Put the true title on either one or the other...
...press conference, Carter also discussed U.S. intervention abroad in quite another guise: covert CIA operations. The week before, the President had abruptly cut off the agency's secret payments to Jordan's King Hussein because the Washington Post was about to expose the practice and hence render it useless.* By implication, Carter told newsmen that he had not found anything wrong with the 20-year-old custom of giving money to Hussein. The President said he was reviewing all CIA programs and had so far found nothing wrong. If he did, he promised to stop any "impropriety...
...discussed the CIA, Carter seemed to be taking a much more realistic approach than he did as a candidate when he was so critical of its secret activities. He said that disclosure of what he called legitimate covert activities "can be extremely damaging . . . to the potential security of our country." Carter is expecting a report within weeks from a high-level commission reviewing CIA activities and, to reduce the possibility of leaks, has already acted to cut down the number of Government officials with access to the intelligence community's secrets. The President also told congressional leaders that...