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COINTELPRO. The name itself sounds Orwellian. The late J. Edgar Hoover's aides invented the acronym in 1956. It stood for Counterintelligence Program, a secret, often illegal FBI campaign of surveillance and sabotage against a wide variety of right-and left-wing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not until 1971, a year before his death, did Hoover, alarmed by the threat of exposure, suspend the program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence exposed the full scope of COINTELPRO'S partly unconstitutional mission in 1975, but only last...
...White House Press Secretary Jody Powell, for stonewalling on questions about the CIA's covert payments to Jordan's King Hussein with the statement, "By definition, any comment would be a contradiction in terms since the operation in question would no longer be secret...
...European Investment Bank; the Japan Development Bank; the state-owned French railroad, telecommunications and electricity networks. Privately owned foreign companies still sell few bonds in the U.S.; they prefer to raise their money in Europe where, for all the disadvantages, there are no tough rules ordering disclosure of secret corporate information to lenders...
...even know." Wall Street underwriters stress that going to the agencies is part of growing up and learning to live with the rules, laws and customs of foreign markets. In any case, they have found a way around the problem: the credit agencies are willing to conduct secret investigations of would-be foreign borrowers. If the bonds get the coveted triple-A rating that overseas borrowers still need to raise U.S. money easily, the issuer proudly lets the results be published; if not, it usually simply decides not to sell the bonds, and no one ever learns that...
Ever wonder what happened between CBS and Daniel Schorr? When Schorr leaked to the Village Voice a secret House Intelligence report, he became the center of a celebrated fuss; the rhetoric of lofty principle filled the air. These principles, on both sides, now seem a little tattier in Schorr's telling. When CBS decided that Schorr must go, its lawyers in February 1976 agreed to pay Schorr more than two years' salary, and severance besides. Only after Schorr had assented to a well-paid firing did CBS agree with him that perhaps such a deal might prejudice Schorr...