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...Soviet Union could, by sowing the seeds of "disinformation" in the American press, influence public opinion so that it could achieve world hegemony without so much as aiming a nuclear weapon at New York. By simply urging Western journalists to follow their own instincts--by encouraging them to expose covert CIA activities, for example--the Soviets can immeasurably further their interests, and drive Western Europe out of the U.S. sphere of influence into their grimy hands...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Majesty's Secret Service. After four weeks of top-secret negotiations, two of Great Britain's most illustrious engineering companies, Rolls-Royce and Vickers, last week announced plans for a merger that was expected to create a company with annual sales of $1.3 billion. Like any good covert operation, the deal had a code name: War and Peace. The Tolstoyan title was appropriate. Vickers Ltd., code-named War, produced the Spitfire, which helped win the Battle of Britain. Rolls-Royce Motors, nicknamed Peace, has been building the world's most distinguished automobiles since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rolls' Marriage | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...return to gunboat diplomacy and covert operations--in President Carter's Iranian rescue mission and Congress's freeing the Central Intelligence Agency to roam foreign nations at will--certainly signals the start of that flinging. But Americans who feel that their government has a right to do what it wants in the world as a result of a few years of a nominally moral foreign policy are turning their backs on every lesson in international relations the world has given the U.S. since World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meaning of Morality | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...planners are secretive about this. Yet it seems clear that they had been more successful than expected in getting covert agents into Iran, gaining support from people already in the country and picking up precise intelligence on where the hostages were and how they were guarded. Over the months, the militants had decreased their numbers and vigilance. Also, the U.S. had launched two secret military satellites in late November, completing the Air Force's positioning of six command and communications satellites around the world, including one over the Indian Ocean. The system could send almost instantaneous messages between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Raging Debate over the Desert Raid | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...that he returned crestfallen from the failure in the desert, angry at being ordered to end the effort and on the verge of resigning his commission. But last week he appeared at a select Pentagon press conference at which photos were banned to protect his potential future usefulness in covert operations. He brusquely denied all allegations that he had opposed the decision to abort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Raging Debate over the Desert Raid | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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