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...good. Thousands of ticket orders, even those postmarked in the wee hours of the first day, had come back unfilled. For relatively few of the World Series tickets were sold to the general public at random, competitive basis. Instead, the front office dispensed its favors through a largely covert system of political and corporate patronage...
...Howard Hughes's $100,000 to Rebozo. Nixon acquired his Key Biscayne land at bargain basement prices from Lansky through Rebozo by laundering illicit profits from Cuban casinos. Nixon was the "secret action officer" in the White House for the Bay of Pigs and wrote in Six Crises: "The covert training of Cuban exiles by the CIA was due in substantial part, at least, to my efforts." On November 22 Nixon was in Dallas representing Pepsico, a notorious CIA cover, whose Laos bottling plant (franchised under Nixon's auspices) concealed the chief heroin factory for the CIA and the Corsican...
What then should be done? Gerald Ford has indicated his determination to supervise the CIA closely. Legally he has to: Congress last year attached an amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act requiring that the President personally "certify" all foreign covert actions. A case can be made that this law should be repealed. The President of the U.S. is now the only head of state of a major power who is not insulated from public responsibility for a clandestine operation should it be exposed...
Presidential Candidates Harris and Morris Udall, former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and other CIA critics have recommended that the CIA should be confined exclusively to intelligence gathering. They propose that covert actions, now in the hands of the CIA's deputy director of operations, should be assigned either to the Pentagon or to a new agency. This is not a good idea. First, intelligence gathering, especially by covert means, and clandestine foreign operations inevitably overlap and often involve the same agents. To divide them artificially would risk duplication, inefficiency and-more serious-the possibility of intelligence gatherers and clandestine...
...best official report to date on the CIA-more thorough and fair than the Rockefeller study, in the view of impartial intelligence experts-was produced by former Under Secretary of State Murphy's Commission on the Organization of the Government for Conduct of Foreign Policy. The report concluded: "Covert action cannot be abandoned, but it should be employed only where clearly essential to vital U.S. purposes and then only after a careful process of high-level review." The CIA is still the most appropriate Government agency to carry out that difficult, often unpleasant but inevitable mission...