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...argue that a successful intervention will break the back of the Arab oil monopoly, slash oil prices and thereby put an end to the current depression ravaging the world economy. Sactimonious protests aside, both the developed and Third World countries will accept this result with great--if covert--gratitude. Because, argues Tucker...
What most outraged the Administration, however, was that the committee had violated an agreement with President Ford. In exchange for secret documents about covert CIA activities in Italy, Angola and Iraq, as well as the "Hollystone" project (involving U.S. subs edging close to Soviet shores to monitor missile launchings), the committee had promised it would not disclose any details if Ford decided that their release would jeopardize national security. Then the committee voted 9 to 4 to renege on the promise, reasoning that no one in the Executive Branch had the right to censor a report from a congressional committee...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was not giving up either, despite an overwhelming House vote (323 to 99) cutting off covert CIA funds to the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the two U.S.-backed factions. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee on Africa last week, Kissinger charged that Congress had deprived the President of "indispensable flexibility" in formulating a foreign policy. The Administration, he added, may seek congressional approval for direct financial aid for the beleaguered F.N.L.A.-UNITA forces...
...sizable section of the committee's final report-also leaked-faults Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for overriding the objections of CIA and State Department experts to covert operations in Angola and Italy. Kissinger is further berated, to the extent of 80 or so pages, for trying to withhold secret information from the committee-in part because he feared it might be leaked...
...Scouts. The trouble, McCloy found, started in 1959, when Gulfs then chief executive officer W.K. Whiteford decided that his company needed more "political muscle." To get it, he ordered that a covert fund be set up. In 1960 the Bahamas Exploration Co. Ltd. in Nassau was transformed from an insignificant subsidiary into a firm that could "launder" Gulfs money and pass it along to politicians. Whiteford insisted that the fund be kept secret from the Mellon family and from the executives that he called the "Boy Scouts"-E.D. Brockett and Bob R. Dorsey. To the directors at last week...