Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reporting this story required nothing so much as a sharp pair of elbows, a knack for getting into the right press pools and a deep reservoir of stamina." Bernstein likens covering Teng's visit to waging a guerrilla war against an army of reporters as well as the Secret Service, which imposed especially tight security...
...time when family quarrels are forgotten," said Carter in his welcoming speech. Suddenly, a woman standing among reporters about 20 ft. from the podium began waving a copy of Mao Tse-tung's Little Red Book and screaming, "Teng is a murderer!" No sooner had U.S. Secret Service men dragged her away than a man perched on a platform erected for TV cameras shouted a paraphrase of one of Mao's sayings: "You cannot make this a garden party! You cannot stop the revolution!" Secret Service men carted him away too. Both were reporters for a Maoist press...
Back in Washington panic began to build and the CIA produced on March 16. 1951 a secret analysis of the situation for Truman and his top officials called "The Current Crisis in Iran." The report noted increased turmoil in the country, the amount of support for the nationalization of the oil industry and the danger of the British worsening the situation by an "unyielding attitude." Yet the special estimate concluded confidently (and Truman marked this in the margin) that "We do not believe...the situation is such that there is imminent danger of the government's losing control, barring armed...
...excesses of the Shah since that time. The Shah was dominated by the United States in the 1950s and early '60s but even at this time he was adept at balancing America against Russia, hinting that he might at any time sign treaties with the Soviets. As a secret CIA National Intelligence Estimate phrased it in 1961: "a continuing problem for the U.S. will be how to give the Shah sufficient support to preserve his present pro-Western policy without encouraging excessive demands for aid." With the massive oil deposits and valuable intelligence sites made available in Iran growing...
America also failed to encourage reforms in Iran for a different reason. The CIA did not provide the U.S. government with sufficient, accurate intelligence about both the growth of opposition and its causes--among them repressive domestic policies. This was because the CIA saw SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, as a friendly intelligence service on the lines of the British or French models with whom it exchanges information, rather than an instrument of political oppression akin...