Word: coverting
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...level agency officials, targeted to be disciplined for their part in drafting the contentious primer, said they were being used as scapegoats. Congressional critics charged that the five were victims of a cover-up designed to protect senior officials, notably CIA Director William J. Casey, who has supervised the covert assistance to anti-Sandinista contras...
...humane, responsible U.S. citizens, we, along with the Nicaraguans, have reason to worry and demand a halt to the U.S. covert war in Nicaragua. Carrie S. Govan...
...Escoto responded, stating that Nicaragua would have no need for such a buildup were it not for the "covert" war being waged in Nicaragua, financed by the CIA, to overthrow the Sandinista government. And, had the U.S. government signed the Contadora proposal which it ostensibly supports, the Nicaragua, arms buildup would cease and that Soviet ship would not be sailing toward Nicaragua with more weapons...
Similarly, it was easier for Mondale to harp on the controversy over the CIA manual on political assassination in Nicaragua than to specify exactly how, where and when covert action is a legitimate instrument of American policy. Mondale also tried to harass Reagan on the issue of responsibility for the bombings in Lebanon rather than tackle the broader, more difficult and more important question in the Middle East: not how to protect embassies from terrorists, but how to advance the Arab-Israeli peace process...
...News President Fred W. Friendly, brings on a panel of experts who enact roles in hypothetical cases dramatizing Executive privilege, freedom of the press, school prayer, the right to life and other constitutional issues. President Ford and advisers like retired General Brent Scowcroft argue that classified information on covert CIA activity in the mythical country of Sierra Madre must be kept secret from Congress and the public. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker disagree. The debate is familiar, but it gains discipline and clarity from the astute questioning of Moderator Benno Schmidt, dean...