Word: covertly
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...guerrilla struggle raises charges of covert U.S. involvement...
...bizarre protest at Emory University last month, more than a dozen students reversed roughly 125,000 books on the second floor of the school's library in a covert action that took all night...
Justin Kaplan, 57, one of the best working biographers, was unhappy when he tried his hand at fiction in his Harvard days. "It was not covert or impersonal enough," recalls the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner for Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. But Kaplan's sharply observed lives possess an imaginative drive found in the best tales. Says Kaplan: "It's like a Dickens novel. You get a feeling of the society around the life. And a good narrative...
...also a highly provocative maneuver. The area chosen for the exercise is part of a surreptitious battleground used by Nicaraguan exiles in a growing counter-revolutionary war against their homeland. U.S. Air Force pilots learned about the covert war the hard way during Big Pine: two days after the exercise began, a U.S. C-130 transport aircraft was sent back to the U.S. with bullet holes in its tail assembly...
...question of Soviet influence becomes difficult to call when counterespionage officials try to uncover KGB links to the antinuclear movement in the U.S. and Western Europe. By CIA reckoning, the Soviets spend roughly $3 billion to $4 billion each year on overt and covert propaganda activities. According to a State Department official, as much as $600 million may have been spent so far on the peace offensive. Using national Communist parties or recognized Communist-front organizations like the World Peace Council, the Kremlin has been able to channel funds to a host of new antiwar organizations that would, in many...