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...month in office, Jimmy Carter last week had to deal with one of the most difficult questions that a President must confront: How much latitude to allow the CIA in conducting covert operations abroad? At issue was the revelation of secret payments to Jordan's King Hussein that, according to the Washington Post, began in 1957 and amounted to "millions of dollars." Carter acted decisively, ordering an immediate halt to the CIA'S largess to the King...
...Covert CIA payments to other key individuals abroad have been commonplace. Among the recipients: the late President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam; President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (formerly the Congo); Holden Roberto, head of a losing faction in the Angola civil war; and Eduardo Frei, former President of Chile. The Post also reported claims that money had gone to Archbishop Makarios III, the President of Cyprus, and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Each man vehemently denied the charge...
...COVERT OPERATIONS. Some critics have suggested that covert operations should be run independently of the CIA -or, in the view of the most radical critics, done away with altogether -leaving the agency to handle only normal intelligence gathering and assessment. McCone dislikes the idea. "I would be afraid that in order to make its mission more totally rewarding, an independent operations side would create undertakings quite beyond necessity. It wouldn't have a hell of a lot to do, so it would think up a whole lot of dirty tricks. The Bay of Pigs was very highly compartmentalized...
Bush thinks that the problem of covert operations is somewhat exaggerated. "They should be used sparingly, adopted procedurally and reported in timely fashion. That is the way it's working now. They are not going to be a major dilemma for Turner...
Korry's talk, which will be given on Wednesday Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. in South Middle, Langdell Hall at Harvard Law School, will focus on "The Covert Corruption of the United States Senate." The lecture will include Korry's further charges that the Senate investigation into the U.S. role in Chile was curtailed, so that details of subversion by past administrations would not be revealed to the public. Korry has said in the past that Senator Hubert Humphrey played a role in restricting the Senate investigation. Admission to the lecture, sponsored by the Harvard Law Forum, will...