Word: subverters
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...Administration. "I just don't understand why you can't find out about all that foreign money that is behind those war protesters," Johnson complained to Helms in 1967. The CIA was just one of a number of federal agencies that Richard Nixon tried to subvert. Although the agency gave some assistance to the plumbers who broke into the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, it later sidestepped White House ploys aimed at involving it in Watergate. Partly as a result, Nixon replaced Helms...
...them ranking opposition political leaders as well as some dissident members of Mrs. Gandhi's own Congress Party. Arguing that the emergency "was undertaken not to destroy the constitution but to safeguard democracy," she said the proclamation had been a "painful necessity" because opposition groups had attempted to subvert the government and destroy democracy...
...proved nothing and disproved even less. Agee says he wrote CIA Diary to permit the American people to see for themselves what their government does abroad in their name. The American people might also consider what happens when CIA agents who regularly subvert democratic processes in other countries return to the United States to serve in the government or in private corporations. Maybe we have more in common with Latin America than we think; maybe the CIA is subverting...
...Seeger's and his friends commitment to the country ran far deep than that of the distinguished members of HUAC. These folksingers truly loved the people they had met, owed a lot to them, a debt which would not be repayed by vague promises not to subvert the government of the United States...
...deflate Madame Bovary's romantic illusions. A Brief Vacation might have been a penetrating analysis of the obstacles that inhibit working women's emancipation. Because it founders in its heroine's false consciousness instead the film is most realistic where it is least perceptive, as its unintended ironies subvert any sympathy it might provoke Ultimately, Clara's oppression in Milan and her liberation at the sanitorium are equally tendentious and one-sided set pieces, whose juxtaposition has all the elegance of a double feature of The Home Life of the Toiling Masses and Gidget Goes to Paris...