Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exposure, and to some extent the misrepresentation, of these covert activities that got the CIA into so much trouble. While zealous agents sometimes overstepped legal limits, the agency more often took the rap for activities that were ordered or approved by higher authorities. The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion was approved by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. It is still debated whether Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson knew of or supported assassination attempts against foreign leaders, such as the bizarre plan to supply poisoned cigars to Fidel Castro. L.B.J. approved Operation Phoenix, in which agents directed the killing of Viet Cong terrorists...
...prohibitions is extensive and severe. Perhaps most important, the Attorney General is drawn into the heart of intelligence to ensure a legal basis for all domestic operations. His approval is needed for an intelligence agent to open mail sent through U.S. postal channels, to join any domestic organization, or to contract for goods and services in the U.S. without revealing his identity...
SATELLITES. In 1972 the U.S. and Soviet Union agreed that a "national means of verification" could be used by both sides, without interference, to police arms control pacts. In plain English: spy satellites were legal...
...member of the Law Record and Legal Aid Bureau, Lubell, and his twin brother, David G. Lubell, also a member of the Law Record, faced a Congressional panel investigating subversive activities in education because they had been sympathetic to communist doctrines while at Cornell...
During their testimony to the Congressional panel in the spring of 1953, the Lubell brothers used the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination then returned to the Law School only to be expunged from their respective positions with the Law Record and Legal Aid Bureau...