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Most landed by helicopter from seaborne troop carriers, but a quarter of the force hit the beach in more classic Marine style, splashing ashore aboard tracked amphibious vehicles. Though their rifles, tanks and howitzers were unloaded?no live ammunition was carried throughout the operation???their performance was intended by Jimmy Carter to be a firm and well-publicized demonstration of Washington's concern about the presence of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba...
Nixon insisted that he had neither authorized nor known about offers of Executive clemency to persuade the Watergate burglars to plead guilty and remain silent. He also insisted that he had made no attempt to get the CIA to take the blame for the Watergate operation??? and had authorized no one else to do so. He denied authorizing or encouraging "subordinates to engage in il legal or improper campaign tactics." Curiously, he did not say whether he had been aware of such activities...
Back in Washington, Hunt told Krogh that "it was a clean operation???there were no fingerprints left behind ?but it had failed to produce." They later
...Both the CIA and the KGB have had their share of successes and disasters. The CIA prides itself on the Penkovsky case, which exposed the operation???and many of the personnel?of the .Soviet military intelligence network. In 1967, the CIA managed the skillful extrication from Moscow of KGB Colonel Evgeny Runge, who had led a spy network in West Germany. Until the Francis Gary Powers case, the U-2 operation was a major intelligence success. The CIA is also credited with obtaining superior information about Soviet military developments and Chinese nuclear-weapons progress, and with sound assessments...
...Received the Government's Cotton Spinning Bill drafted to create a Spindles Board with authority to buy up and decommission £2,000,000 worth of Lancashire cotton spindles in the less efficient mills. These would be paid for by a 15-year levy on spindles remaining in operation???the plan roughly comparing with the AAA processing tax in the U. S. To keep Japan or other competitors from buying up decommissioned British spindles, the Bill would forbid their export...