Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard, during November 1978, Turner reiterated the agency's determination to ignore the guidelines. University of California students sought relevant files on secret recruiting under the Freedom of Information Act last year but the courts deemed them non-releasable (Gardels v. CIA). In an affidavit, however, the agency did reveal it had covert relations with faculty members. Now Brown University is applying pressure to Turner in an attempt to end covert recruitment...
...reaction was the exception and not the rule. In spring 1976, the presidents of America's eight most prestigious universities gathered for a secret meeting in Washington's Mayflower Hotel. They were given complete details of the CIA's recruitment of foreign students on their campuses, but a clear majority accepted the status quo and took no action...
...Morland did not have access to any classified material, and his scientific training consists of a few college science courses. Any "secret" he "discovered" is nothing but public knowledge, available to almost anyone who cares to look...
...years, the U.S. government played the same secrecy game with the atomic bomb, ostensibly protecting America's security by keeping the A-bomb "secret" under wraps. Then three undergraduates (one of them a Harvard student who managed only a B- in Physics 55) independently designed workable A-bombs without access to classified information, exploding the government's logic of using information control to contain the spread of nuclear weapons. Unphased, the government simply classified the student's designs...
...clothing, drive his car and occupy the same hotel room. John is under 24-hour surveillance by a team of six scientists who observe him through binolculars and monitor the functioning of his heart, blood and lungs with electronic sensors taped to his skin. The entire procedure, as secret as it is thorough, fails to yield any leads whatsoever, and as the novels begins, a dejected narrator is readying for his departure from Naples, certain that his mission has been a failure...