Word: coverting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expected (TIME, Feb. 23), the President has refused to ban covert operations or separate them from the agency's intelligence-gathering functions. He has not yielded to Congress's demand for the right to approve covert operations ahead of time. He continues to urge that the six leaky congressional committees dealing with intelligence be consolidated into one leakproof joint committee. In short, he has done hardly anything to compromise the independence or the secrecy of the agency. Said Ford at his press conference: "I will not be a party to the dismantling of the CIA or other intelligence...
Several options are open. There's always the interventionist approach: covert operations, Chile-style, via the CIA. American citizens may dismiss this possibility, treating Chile as an aberration which could not be repeated in western Europe. But the Italians themselves fear this possibility more than any other and in self-defense have published all the names of top-level CIA agents in Italy...
Blown covers for their CIA agents provides one reason why the U.S. should not pursue this angle. In addition to this tactical disadvantage, there are other reasons for avoiding intervention. Covert CIA operations would not at this point be acceptable to U.S. allies in Europe. CIA intervention would certainly alienate most pro-western forces in Italy, leaving the U.S. with few allies. Finally, there is no right-wing military establishment which could succeed a possible Communist government. Neo-fascism is a possibility, but only at the cost of civil war. Due to all their governmental instability and endless political crises...
Ford firmly rejects the more extreme proposals of congressional critics of the intelligence agencies. Among them are suggestions that a permanent special prosecutor be appointed to prosecute wrongdoing by undercover agents, that the intelligence budget be made public, and that Congress be permitted to exercise veto power over covert CIA operations before they are begun...
...secret information by reporters. CBS Washington Correspondent Daniel Schorr finally admitted that he was the one who gave New York's weekly broadside, the Village Voice (circ. 152,000), a copy of Representative Otis Pike's House Intelligence Committee's report on CIA and FBI covert operations (see THE NATION). The House had voted not to release it, but, said Schorr, he acted on "an inescapable decision of journalistic conscience." Although the document contained nothing significant that had not already been leaked, he added: "As possibly the sole possessor of the document outside the Government, I could...