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...Begin. He has few intimates outside his family (wife Shulamit, 60; son Yair, 38, an air force pilot, and daughter Gilada, 34). "He is sphinxlike," says Knesset Member Amnon Rubinstein. That befits a man who was a leader of the terrorist underground before Israel's independence and a covert agent and high official of Israel's intelligence agency, MOSSAD. (Even his surname had been a deception; born Jazernicki, he chose the new identity after escaping from a British prison in 1943.) When it comes to Israel's basic security interests, those few who do know Shamir expect...
John Stockwell, the highest-ranking former CIA official to speak critically of the agency, told a supportive Sanders Theater audience of 200 that the CIA's covert actions "disrupt the political and social fabric" of developing countries and threaten "the fate of the earth...
Stockwell, who directed the CIA's covert war in Angola before quitting in 1977, reiterated some of the ideas set forth in his recent book. "In Search of Enemies," denouncing the U.S.'s involvement in a number of Third World nations. He also criticized President Reagan's interventions in Nicaragua and Grenada...
...negotiated settlement remains only a distant possibility. In the meantime, the Reagan Administration remains committed to a strategy of countering Nicaraguan-sponsored insurgency with covert CIA support for anti-Sandinista rebels. That policy has drawn increasing attacks on Capitol Hill from legislators who believe the real aim is to destabilize and, if possible, overthrow the Nicaraguan regime. Led by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Boland, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, opponents in the House tried to block money for further covert aid to the rebels. A Senate bill, however, retained funding for continued covert support. After a compromise reached last week...
...fall. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) went even further, supporting U.S. arms shipments to Israel for Zionist slaughter of the Palestinian people. Secondly, the reformists want to harp on Reagan's violation of "international law" and ignore or cheerlead his "war on communism." The Reaganites glory in "illegal" "covert" actions like the raids on Nicaragua so long as they are successful. The bellicose Democratic Party "doves" raise a stink over "illegalities" only so they can wield their constitutional right to declare war as they recently did, authorizing the Marines to remain in Lebanon for at least another 18 months...