Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however windily, the one and only subject on the agenda. But as Hatch said last week, "Everyone knows that we are now in a period of extended debate." And just how extended? Says Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who firmly supports the bill: "We're not going to quit in two weeks-or three weeks, or four weeks...
...begins an "inside" tale of how a CIA operation grew-and failed-from one who was intimately involved with it: John Stockwell, 40, an ex-Marine lieutenant who, before he quit the intelligence agency, not only was a CIA agent for twelve years but served as the "case officer" in charge of the Angolan venture. Stockwell's book, In Search of Enemies, is a narrative of IAFEATURE'S short, six-month history. Like Decent Interval, the highly critical account of CIA operations in Viet Nam by ex-Analyst Frank Snepp-who happens to be a friend of Stockwell...
...born in Texas but grew up in Africa after his engineer-father took a job in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) following World War II. Stockwell says he wrestled with a nagging conscience about his agency work for much of his CIA career, but did not decide to quit until after the Angolan venture...
...Canada: managing editor of the Toronto Star, news director of one of its two TV networks, and editor in chief of Maclean's magazine. Irishman Malachi Martin was a professor at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, and advised Cardinal Bea during the Second Vatican Council. But he quit the Jesuits before the council ended and later wrote a book declaring that the church is a grand failure...
...great gray area of the book, however, is you don't know exactly how much Stockwell himself has changed. He says he was disillusioned with the CIA's operations, but he was disillusioned after a tour in Vietnam, and he didn't quit then. It's possible that the Angolan experience left him cynical enough about the CIA's efficacy that he couldn't get excited over more dirty little wars, and his superiors saw the change and decided to stagnate his career. There are indications that he'd've liked it just as well if the U.S. had gone...