Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the conflict, the U.S. maintained a strict hands-off policy, but nonetheless an American did reluctantly become involved. Gerald Emil Kosh, 27, a Department of Defense civilian employee in Viet Nam who reported to the Pentagon on the performance of the South Vietnamese navy, was aboard one of the Vietnamese ships when the fighting erupted. For safety's sake he was put ashore on Pattle Island, but Chinese troops overran the island and captured Kosh...
...Christmas bombing to the secret bombing of Cambodia to building General Thieu's torturous prisons and continuing to finance his attacks on areas he doesn't control. And five years (so far) of subversion of democracy at home, from the Mayday internments to Kent State to bribing the Pentagon Papers judge to letting complaint monopolies even more alone than usual to bugging the opposition's headquarters to ignoring or defying the courts and the Congress. Not to mention all the rest...
...Salem, Ore., where he now works as a personnel administrator at the U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center. Welander was sent to Charleston, S.C.; he commanded a flotilla of destroyers there until May 1973, when he became an Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon. In June 1972, Nixon reappointed Moorer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. To prevent future military snooping, Kissinger abolished the Joint Chiefs' liaison with the Security Council...
When the story of the stolen documents finally broke this month, a Pentagon spokesman tried to dismiss it as the result of "overzealousness and overexuberance" on the part of low-ranking staff members. Some officers privately said, however, that far from being gung-ho, Radford and Welander did no more than what is expected of most liaison personnel. The military, loathing surprises, takes extraordinary steps to keep itself apprised of what is going on in Washington. At least 515 liaison officers are assigned to civilian agencies; there are even five in the U.S. Postal Service. Declared one retired admiral: "Military...
...included the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.) By last week White House officials were shifting gears and insisting that the snooping case was really unimportant after all. Just why they did so is unclear. Perhaps the Administration realized that few people would accept the Pentagon's spying as the real reason why Nixon did not want the plumbers to be fully investigated. In any case, both the White House and the Pentagon obviously hoped that the story of the snooping affair would quickly fade away...