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...Fundamentals. Another tacit understanding between the big powers, according to Felix, is that political assassination will not be included in secret operations, on the theory that the murder of chiefs of state cannot resolve the existing conflicts between East and West. The recruitment of good U.S. secret agents is difficult, largely because gait, posture, manner and even physique make Americans readily identifiable abroad. As a result, U.S. intelligence services draw largely on naturalized U.S. citizens-which makes it somewhat easier for the Russians to penetrate the system by planting a counterspy in the guise of a recent defector...
...make them less dependent on foreign aid. The U.S. Government, which has had some bitter experiences in this connection (the $500 million in aid that the U.S. has pumped into Brazil during the past nine years has been completely swallowed up by declining coffee prices), has given its tacit approval to commodity price agreements. "We are for such agreements," says Antonio Carrillo Flores, Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S., "because no better form has been devised...
...prospect was shattered last January when Brigadier General Kim Chong Pil, husband of Park's niece and boss of the dreaded Central Intelligence Agency, quit the C.I.A. in order to grab control of the regime's civilian political organization, the Democratic-Republican Party. With Park's tacit approval, Kim, whose 30,000 snoopers had kept tabs on anything and anyone the junta might distrust-including members of the junta-infiltrated the party's power positions with 1,200 of his former C.I.A. agents...
...being used to train Cubans to export revolution and sabotage throughout Latin America. Moreover, by one White House estimate, at least 13,000 students from other Latin American nations are in Castro's Communist schools; about 100 graduate agents leave Cuba monthly to cause trouble back home. The tacit bargain with Khrushchev may have its advantages for the U.S., but it has them for Khrushchev...
...elected Governor in 1942, and went to the Senate in 1948. He became the second-ranking Democrat, behind Virginia's Byrd, on the Senate Finance Committee. As such, he last year helped push through much of President Kennedy's tax program, to which Byrd was opposed. In tacit return for Kerr's favors, the President did not push for changes in the oil-depletion allowance...