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...tacitly on trial himself. It's no secret that Chavez, who controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves, lavishes billions of dollars in foreign aid on allies to promote his anti-U.S. Bolivarian Revolution. Foes have long groused that his largesse can also be as shadowy as the covert U.S. operations Chavez accuses agencies like the CIA of perpetrating. They contend that he has funneled cash to leftist candidates in presidential races from Bolivia to Mexico, and that he has helped fund Marxist guerrillas like the FARC in Colombia. Chavez has just as adamantly denied those charges, as have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chávez and the Cash-Filled Suitcase | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...wasn't until Antonini's luggage was opened in 2007 - and until Colombian authorities claimed last spring that seized guerrilla laptops revealed Chavez payments of as much as $300 million to the FARC - that alleged evidence of Caracas' covert dealings had ever surfaced. The top prosecutor on the Antonini case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Mulvihill, has said in hearings that conversations recorded by an FBI wire that Antonini wore prove the suitcase money "was meant for the campaign of Cristina [Fernandez]." And according to court documents filed this summer, Kauffman is expected to testify they were told by high-level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chávez and the Cash-Filled Suitcase | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...Take covert action away from the CIA. Covert action is little more than propaganda, which only gets in the way of looking at the world objectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Ways to Fix the CIA | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...During the cold war, the ISI served as the key intermediary for channeling covert U.S. support to the mujahedin fighting the Soviets in neighboring Afghanistan. Some of these fighters were recruited and trained directly by the ISI, and the organization later helped bring the Taliban to power to end the intra-mujahedin fighting that followed the Soviet withdrawal. The ISI also built intimate links with indigenous jihadist groups, through which it fought a proxy war against India in disputed Kashmir. In domestic politics, the intelligence organization has been accused of rigging elections, intimidation and even overthrowing governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Spies Elude Its Government | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...love the Wiimote," it's more than likely adding to the online deluge washing away the Weemote trademark. As a result, Amazon.com is among dozens of online companies receiving letters from Fobis this month asking them to erase Wiimote from their advertising, metatags and other marketing channels, overt or covert. If they refuse, Fobis may consider filing suits to make them comply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Weemote vs. Wiimote Tiff | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

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