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The aftermath of the mission that had come to a bloody and unsuccessful end in an Iranian desert left conflicting feelings high in the ranks of the Administration that planned it. Some State Department officials felt that the whole venture had been badly timed?that it should have been either...
But Reagan's ideological cohort-men like Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms-could never accept the know-it-all interloper. They kept sniping at him. They complained that while Sears was vainly trying to win over Eastern moderates, he was alienating the conservative faithful...
The President decided last fall to assign 100,000 men?basically members of the Marine Corps's 1st and 3rd divisions and the Army's 82nd and 101st airborne divisions?to a Rapid Deployment Force that eventually will be able to respond quickly to emergencies anywhere in the world. The...
Operating from within their own borders and with no domestic public opinion to consider, the Soviets seem almost impervious to criticism. Moscow, after all, knows there is not much the U.S. can actually do. Says Richard Helms, a former Ambassador to Iran and former director of the CIA: "It'...
Nixon dumped Helms when he failed to provide sufficient cover-up for Watergate. In departing, Helms once again took the rap for what his superiors had ordered. He was charged with lying to a Senate committee about the CIA's role in the attempt to prevent Salvador Allende from...