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...month he suddenly turned himself in, identified himself as Michael James Meisner, 27, a former national secretary of the Church of Scientology, and said he had just escaped from two months of "house arrest" by cult members. Meisner told the FBI that he had supervised a whole program of covert operations against several Government agencies during 1975-76. Scientologists had planted the arrested IRS employee and a Justice Department secretary in their jobs for the express purpose of stealing documents concerning investigations of Scientology, Meisner said. Church operatives had even broken into IRS headquarters and planted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scientology: Parry and Thrust | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...Robert ("Rusty") Williams, a management consultant and longtime friend of Turner's, will review and recommend changes in the agency's directorate of operations, the much criticized unit that carries out covert operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: An Old Salt Opens Up the Pickle Factory | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...parallel proposal is being worked out by a Senate subcommittee under Kentucky's Walter Huddleston. The plan would also: create a National Security Council subcommittee to review proposals for covert operations, ban the hiring of outsiders to conduct illegal acts abroad (such as burglaries and antigovernment protests), prohibit political assassinations and require the FBI to secure federal court orders before conducting surveillance of suspected spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: An Old Salt Opens Up the Pickle Factory | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Eight years after the undergraduates took over University Hall and found records linking Harvard faculty members to the CIA, the University issued guidelines this spring on Harvard-CIA relations, forbidding any active intelligence work by University employees. Most intelligence work is covert, so it's hard to see how the University plans to enforce its rules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The word from above | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...Richard Bissell, a former CIA chief of covert operations, coolly describing to Moyers how the White House orders assassinations: "A President typically says he wants to get rid of somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Grinch Who Stole Castro | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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