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The controversy is not the first to embroil Schorr in recent years. Early in the Nixon Administration he angered the President by reporting, accurately, that there was no evidence to support Nixon's claim that he had programs ready to aid parochial schools. His reward: Nixon ordered the FBI...
In the wake of the failure at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961 Dulles and Bissell both left the agency. They were succeeded by McCone as director and Richard M. Helms as deputy director for plans. Helms, who had known nothing about the schemes against Castro until he succeeded...
In 1967 the CIA established within its counterintelligence staff a special group, called Operation CHAOS, ostensibly to gather information abroad about U.S. dissidents' foreign contacts. Located in a vaulted basement area at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., CHAOS operated under secrecy that was excessive by even CIA standards, leading...
Although Operation CHAOS' official purpose-keeping track of U.S. radicals' overseas contacts-fell well within the CIA charter, some of its activities were illegal. On a number of occasions, agent recruits who had infiltrated dissident groups to establish cover before going abroad reported improperly on radicals' domestic...
Word of the lunch eventually got to CBS Newsman Daniel Schorr, who on Feb. 28 reported the President's concern about CIA assassination plots. Schorr's report stirred a mild sensation, and former CIA Director Richard Helms denounced the reporter as "Killer Schorr! Killer Schorr!" But by then...