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Boyd charged the CIA with staging evidence of canabalism in Angola to discredit the population there, and blamed the Langley, Virginia, CIA computer for "the concoction of alphabet soup groups in this country like the SLA or the BLA to perpetuate CIA manipulation of our citizens...
Using agents to tap phones and penetrate the Ecuadorian Communist party, Agee & Co. worked out an elaborate ruse to discredit a leftist named Antonio Flores Benitez. They concocted a report in the name of Flores, depicting him as a violent revolutionary. The paper was secreted in a tube of toothpaste. One of the agents at the airport then concealed the tube up his sleeve and let it fall out while examining Flores' luggage. When the document was "discovered," the ensuing uproar in the press helped discredit the government...
...attempted to discredit Agee, charging that he is a possible Soviet agent, but all in all the CIA has proved nothing and disproved even less. Agee says he wrote CIA Diary to permit the American people to see for themselves what their government does abroad in their name. The American people might also consider what happens when CIA agents who regularly subvert democratic processes in other countries return to the United States to serve in the government or in private corporations. Maybe we have more in common with Latin America than we think; maybe the CIA is subverting...
These two interest groups declared war on Harvard and the whole project. Both groups are well-organized. Edison has spent most of its time since the release of the environmental impact statement trying to discredit it, using all the muscle and "experts" it can muster to its cause. The residents, also concerned about the environmental impact, have chosen the power plant as the focal point for all their wrath against institutions they claim are out to turn their predominantly working class neighborhood into an upper class research center. And they feel that the plans will cut to the very heart...
...fill a void in quality research." From the very beginning. DISC has stated that "the primary interest of those in the institute must be research." Brimmer has distorted DISC's demands for forums, colloquia and non-credit seminars as threats to pure research in an apparent attempt to discredit its goal--student participation in the formation and operation of the DuBois Institute. In dismissing the DISC demands. Brimmer said. "There are hundreds and thousands of action groups." But open discussion and criticism of research conducted at the DuBois Institute by members of the black community hardly constitutes an action group...