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...issue was Casey's judgment in selecting the brash and arrogant Hugel, 56, for such a sensitive job. It entailed deploying CIA agents around the world, recruiting spies behind the Iron Curtain and giving the go-ahead for all covert operations. Also under study was the CIA's apparent failure to uncover allegations of serious impropriety in Hugel's business practices when the agency ran its customary background check. One main objective of the screening process is to find out if a prospective CIA official could in any way be blackmailed-and "blackmail" was precisely what Hugel...
...friend is just the latest example of what the FBI calls "technology transfer"-the continuing effort by foreign countries, particularly the Soviet Union, to grab American technical know-how in whatever way they can. The methods, says FBI Spokesman Roger Young, "range from the legal and overt to the covert and illegal. Sometimes they are crude to the point of a car pulling up to a technological trade show and just loading up with free literature...
...Portillo will surely caution Washington not to shape its entire Latin American policy as a test of wills between the U.S. and Cuba. But the Administration's policy there, as elsewhere, already seems to be firmly set. Enders summed up the Administration's view: "Cuba has declared covert war on its neighbors-our neighbors...
...guidelines we do ask our faculty and staff members, because of professional obligations and their voluntary relationship with other members of the academic community, to forego rights that they otherwise have as citizens (i.e. "the gathering of intelligence nd other covert activities on behalf of the CIA"). We made this request because we concluded that the practices in question are inconsistent with the nature of a university community and the obligations of a member of the academic profession. Covert recruiting by university personnel and its attendant practices bring a new and disturbing element into the relationships among members...
...political turmoil in the Third World will be a continual source of tension. Increased, instead of decreased, U.S. economic aid, and North-South economic cooperation, will be necessary to prevent serious difficulties in unstable areas like the Persian Gulf. America must be willing to use force and even selective covert action if that seems appropriate...