Word: fiascos
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...Success, One Fiasco...
...ends the year midway through the term of its third chairman with a few irons in the fire and a long list of where to begin again in September. Its one unqualified success and one fiasco of near classic proportions say much about the committee...
Since the Wallace fiasco, the two major parties have increased their already amply tight grip on American Politics. Except on the Congressional level, recent third party efforts have been soundly crushed. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. in New York, Dick Gregory in Chicago, David Frost in New Jersey, and Thomas Boylston Adams in Massachusetts have gone nowhere...
...opinion or atmosphere -as was apparently the objective in the N.S.A. subsidy-or for aiding the overthrow of foreign governments. It is this acting on intelligence rather than simply gathering it that frightens me. Incidents such as the U-2 flight and President Eisenhower, and the Bay of Pigs fiasco and President Kennedy, have suggested that even the chief executive is not fully informed of CIA actions and that American citizens have the right to demand that the CIA stay with intelligence and espionage, not propaganda and sabotage...
Helms became head of the plans division in 1962, when CIA's top echelon was reorganized as a result of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. At this stage, the agency was smarting under severe external criticism and riven by intramural factionalism. Helms, even-tempered and affable, managed to avoid office politics and grudges...