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...more convincing explanation of our foreign policy "failure" in Iran is that the breakdown occurred not at the level of data-gathering, but in the inhibition of the CIA's ability to execute that broader category of tasks referred to as "intelligence operations"--a euphemism for covert interference in and manipulation of political forces in a foreign country. This inhibition had much less to do with American congressional investigations into CIA abuses than it did with the Shah of Iran's insistence that the CIA not involve itself with opposition political groups, and that all "intelligence operations" be conducted through...
Saying that registration would lead to a draft like "night following day," anti-draft counselor John Judge last night urged students to decide on "covert or overt non-registration" should Congress adopt President Carter's registration proposal...
...goes by without Loeb's patting Reagan on the back while he attacks Kennedy and Bush. Contending in a frontpage article that ex-CIA agents are working in Bush's campaign, Loeb charged that Bush's victory in Iowa had "all the smell of a CIA covert operation." Loeb also played up a charge rehashed in the Los Angeles Times that Bush had not properly reported a contribution of $106,000 from a Nixon slush fund for his unsuccessful Senate campaign in Texas in 1970. DIRTY, DIRTY, DIRTY headlined the Union Leader. "I am clean, clean, clean...
...Senate Intelligence Committee reopened debate this week on the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) freedom to conduct covert activities on university campuses...
...proposed National Intelligence Act of 1980 has Jimmy Carter's strong backing. The charter's most important provision would allow the CIA to conduct covert operations if the President, after consulting with the Nation al Security Council, found them necessary to protect "important" U.S. interests overseas. Such operations have never been formally banned, but a 1974 law had the effect of requiring the President to notify eight congressional committees about them in "a timely fashion." The risks of a leak were so great that covert op erations were severely limited. The new bill would require prior notification...