Word: secretes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This book is best, though, in the detail with which Hersch describes operations of the U.S. intelligence network. All over the Far East, men in super-secret listening posts are eavesdropping on Soviet fighter communications, radar signals, and even the radio chatter of Russian soldiers...
Even as the Cabinet meeting was under way, Manila radio reported that Ramos had issued a secret directive to all regional commanders instructing them not to follow orders from Enrile or one of his closest comrades, Lieut. Colonel Gregorio Honasan. At noon, Press Secretary Teodoro Benigno left the Cabinet meeting to announce Ramos' appeal that officers maintain "calm and stability in their respective areas of jurisdiction...
...Americans do anything in secret anymore? You are a Russian or an Israeli or an Iranian. Tomorrow you are approached by an American agent to help his cause in a secret operation. Do you accept the offer? Not unless you have a lot of life insurance and a craving for publicity...
...only country in the world where "covert" funding for "secret" wars is not only front-page news but the subject of open parliamentary debate. At a meeting with columnists and editors last year, President Reagan was asked why he was not doing more to help efforts in Congress to send aid to the rebels in Angola. Reagan replied that he didn't want to go that route, but that he would give covert aid instead. The President was speaking on the record...
...American political debate, the words covert and secret have lost all meaning. It is not just that, as the European traveler invariably notes, Americans are more open and informal in their social relations. It is that the very idea of secrecy carries a moral taint. Americans are passionately democratic, and thus acutely sensitive to the contradiction between democracy, with its promise and premise of openness, and the secret world of diplomatic and paramilitary intrigue...