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Apart from its covert schemes, the FBI's new interest in political corruption has concentrated on at least one other U.S. Senator: Nevada Democrat Howard W. Cannon. A court-authorized FBI wiretap on the telephone of Allen F. Dorfman, a former Teamster consultant who had long maintained influence over the huge pension funds of the various Teamster unions centered in Chicago, led agents to question whether Dorfman might have enticed Cannon into shaping a bill deregulating the trucking industry into a form more acceptable to the Teamsters. As chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Cannon was a key figure...
...argument that the billions of dollars of arms we sold to the government of the Shah, Israel's and our training of Savak and other military personnel, 40,000 American technicians and "consultants" working for our military or private corporations on contract to the Shah, and no doubt substantial covert CIA activities as well--all of these were somehow "insufficient," and we erred in Iran only by not supporting the Shah more fully...
...exploit the current mood of public frustration will otherwise return to haunt American foreign policy for decades to come, the way the mistakes of the past decades have created our current predicament. A more flexible intelligence policy will mean not more information for our leaders but more headaches; more covert operations means more Irans...
...charter the various intelligence agencies. But in today's over-charged atmosphere, Carter has decided that "flexibility" must come first, accountability second. He is pressing senators to pass charters that would allow intelligence agencies to use journalists, academics, and clergymen as agents, and reduce the number of types of covert operations agencies that must report to oversight committees...
...Senate thinks before it acts it will reject Carter's requests and continue to seek effective, responsible restraints on intelligence activities. Intelligence agencies have a legitimate need to gather information, but all covert operations should be subjected to rigorous oversight by Congress, and the public should have the legal right to receive information about intelligence activities...