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...with the shadow-world ethos of the cold war. His generation of CIA officers perceived themselves in an intensely personal crusade against the Evil Empire. George valiantly fought these looking-glass battles in extraordinarily dangerous assignments in Beirut and Athens, where his predecessor had been assassinated. It was a covert existence in which professional spies like George routinely broke other nations' laws. It was part of their job to lie about their identities, their missions, their actions -- but not to their own superiors. And especially not to Congress. "That," says former CIA staffer Vincent Cannistraro...
...beliefs were as widely shared by agency types as their low regard for Capitol Hill. In the 1970s, following embarrassing revelations about failed assassinations and bungled covert operations, Congress set up an oversight system and tried to put the agency on a swidely shared by agency types as their low regard for Capitol Hill. In the 1970s, following embarrassing revelations about failed assassinations and bungled covert operations, Congress set up an oversight system and tried to put the agency on a shorter leash. Some CIA officials, including former Director William Colby, applauded the move. "I thought things had changed...
...Pines, "because there is so little else to galvanize the right. But it's really marginal." Pines is one of many ideologues who are cool to Bush -- "We'll vote for him holding our noses," he says -- and wonder where the next Reagan will come from. One subject of covert conversation in Houston is whether the conservative cause would be better served by a Bush victory or defeat this year. Another is which personality has the best chance of uniting the sects for the next election...
...fiscal, year, Harvard held the third highest number of seats in a group of 32 Federal advisory committees, according to Covert Action magazine...
...alive in Indochina after Operation Homecoming" in 1973, when North Vietnam handed back 591 prisoners. He said an additional 133, later lowered to 80, were unaccounted for, though there was no absolute proof they were alive. Kerry added that the Pentagon routinely falsified the records of men lost in covert operations in Laos...