Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most dramatic feats: its pinpoint reporting about day-by-day developments leading to the explosion of Red China's first nuclear device, its brilliant success in wiretapping Soviet army headquarters in East Berlin,* its nick-of-time revelation in 1962 that Russian missile bases were abuilding in Cuba. Even more mysterious to most Americans than CIA itself is its director, Richard McGarrah Helms, 53, an intense, controlled, self-effacing professional who holds one of the most delicate and crucial posts in official Washington-and whose name has yet to appear in Who's Who in America. Dick Helms...
...adversity. There is a pride in being a "professional and not just a dabbler"--a professional because of the sacrifices one must make to become a member. And, as in any club, there are fringe travel benefits which go along with membership. The Communist is received in style in Cuba, Guatemala (in the hills), France, Italy, Russia, and China, to mention a few. Furthermore, there are those pretty girls and after Party parties...
...predictably as Old Jeff himself-or, for that matter, Husband George, who spoke before her and left no doubt who would wield the power-Mrs. Wallace, third woman Governor in U.S. history,* attacked the Federal Government, equating Washington with Red China, Russia and Cuba. "And always," she said, "the results are the same, a transfer of power from the people to a rapidly expanding central government. That these deeds are done in the name of our federal constitution adds blasphemy to their performance...
...Frei where it hurt most-in his foreign relations. He has been assiduously strengthening ties with both East and West. Two weeks ago, Chile signed $55 million worth of credit and technical assistance agreements with Russia, making Chile Latin America's second-largest recipient of Soviet aid (after Cuba). On his trip to Washington, Frei was scheduled to have two meetings with President Johnson. Frei has been a prime organizer and spirit behind the hemisphere-wide summit conference scheduled for early April in Punta del Este, Uruguay, which Johnson plans to attend...
...last 21 months of the Eisenhower Administration, there were too many crises to permit any bold initiatives in Washington's dealings with either allies or foes. Soviet pressure on Berlin was a constant threat. Relations with Castro's Cuba continued to deteriorate. Laos tottered, the Congo fell apart, and Gary Powers' spy plane crashed on Soviet soil. With the U-2 fell whatever hopes Herter still held for the Paris summit conference. When he left office, one aide recalls, he was "an unhappy...