Word: nsc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...replaced it with experts assigned to a country or region. Now they periodically make concrete recommendations through Colby to the National Security Council. The result has been to make the CIA in its intelligence work less of a semiautonomous think tank and more of an appendage of the NSC and the White House...
...want to emphasize that we're talking about a very small number of covert actions. Policy is generated at the NSC, not here...
...outdone in the war of statistics, the NSC has countered with more of its own. Said one spokesman in rejoinder: "Travel on 31 representative turnpikes during the first five months of this year was down 14% from the first five months of 1973, but fatalities were down 60%." The lowered speed limit seemed a likely explanation. What is more, said the NSC, there were 3.4 deaths per 100 million miles driven for the first six months of 1974, down from an average 4.27 for all of 1973. As for the A.M.A. contention that most crashes occur at speeds under...
...secure tight control over the press with his very first National Security Council staff meeting in 1969. He alone, he told his aides, would deal with newsmen. Roger Morris, a former Kissinger assistant, recalls in an article in the current Columbia Journalism Review that he and his NSC colleagues "were authorized to explore secret negotiations, even to edit the ceaseless outpour of Kissinger's diary. But none of us was trusted to deal with that most sensitive and perilous phenomenon of them all-a journalist...
...different story to tell the Senators. He hotly denied that he had ever ordered Radford to spy, though he did admit receiving and routinely passing on to Moorer two special packets from Radford. These contained, Welander said, material that supplemented what he had already received from the NSC staff. The new information was in the form of carbons and crumpled Xeroxed copies of staff reports, memorandums of conversations and the like. But, Welander added, he had assumed that Radford had acquired the material as a regular part of his duties, just as he had all the hundreds of other papers...