Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week Levi told the Senate committee that his department is drafting an order that would allow the FBI to investigate domestic dissidents only if there is "a likelihood" that they are involved in violent and illegal activities. The directive would also prohibit the FBI from trying to discredit or disrupt the organizations unless there was no other way to eliminate "an immediate risk to human life." Under the draft guidelines, the FBI would have to inform the Attorney General of all domestic security probes; in turn, he would be required to halt any investigation that failed to meet the written...
Jack W. Boisen, a spokesman for Trans World Airlines, said Friday that recent strikes against National and United Airlines may slightly disrupt some students' travel plans. Travelers will have difficulty getting reservations on domestic flights because of the strike, he said, but they should still have no trouble finding space on international flights...
Buchanan, Hamm, and King, when reached yesterday, said that they pleaded "guilty with an explanation" to Carchman. All three said there had been no premeditated plan to disrupt Hick's speech, but that her remarks made them "emotionally distraught...
Balkanization, Trong said, tries to disrupt the unity of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by aggravating border disputes and infiltrating those countries with Thai agents...
False Credentials. A Hoover memo of October 1968, titled "The Disruption of the New Left," urged that the FBI send anonymous letters to parents, informing them when their youngsters were arrested in antiwar demonstrations. At the 1964 Democratic Convention, the FBI got false press credentials through NBC and inserted agents, working as reporters, within left-wing and civil rights groups. Sometimes the FBI tried to disrupt the marriages of dissidents by sending anonymous letters to a husband or wife. Said one letter to the husband of a white woman active in the black movement: "Look man I guess your...