Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some extent, the dilemma over the CIA has to do with an American need to have it both ways: the U.S. wants to be (and to see itself as) a morally responsible country and yet function as a great power in an immoral world. As Bowdoin's Robinson puts it, "There is an inevitable tension between an organization like the CIA and a democratic society. From time to time there will be pulling back when the organization may have gone too far." The U.S. has reached such a point with the revelations about its actions in Chile, which, on balance...
...less than impartial account, Agee's main function for the CIA was to recruit agents in Latin America. In nearly every case, he says, the lure was money. He describes the CIA method of snaring an agent: "You start out by giving him money for his organization?lots of it?knowing that he will eventually take some for himself. When he gets dependent on it, you move in." Once hooked, the recruit is given a lie detector test to discover his weaknesses. Continues Agee: "Then it all hangs out. He can go on serving...
...purposes and function, which is closely related to America's view of its own role in the world...
...pinched eyes of Nixon loyalists around this city, it probably seemed hopeless: there was no apparent order, and very little secrecy. But it all represented, one would hope, the first whiff of the Federal Government again beginning to function as it should. Right or wrong, Ford was making firm decisions. The CIA flap, however embarrassing, indicated that the U.S. was coming to grips with the realities of the world and the national mood. Henry Kissinger was being reduced from God to just a very good Cabinet officer. The fact that Rockefeller's $182 million was being laid...
...each story does not simply attempt to mirror reality but to create a new world of the imagination that is a separate and additional part of reality. In a way Davenport's stories are to literature what Frank Lloyd Wright's structuralist buildings are to architecture. They are both functional and graceful; their structure explains their function of preserving and discussing ideas...