Word: unites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colby said that the agency, quite apart from the Counter-intelligence unit's list of 10,000, over the years has compiled lists of names of Americans for reasons "which do appear questionable under CIA'S authority; for example, [as a result of] an excessive effort to identify possible 'threats' to the agency's security." Colby said that "a number of [the lists] have been eliminated in the past three years, and the agency's current directives clearly require that no such listings be maintained...
...course of keeping watch on U.S. dissidents, the Counter-intelligence unit established files on about 10,000 U.S. citizens, including a former Congressman. About two-thirds of the names came from the FBI, the remainder from leads developed by the CIA. Colby said that in recent months the CIA has weeded out about 1,000 of the files as "not justified by CIA's counter-intelligence responsibilities." But the inactive files "could be reconstituted should this be required...
...sharply curtailed surveillance of U.S. dissidents last March, when Colby disbanded the special Counter-intelligence unit and ordered that the CIA watch Americans abroad only when asked to do so by the FBI. But there were dubious domestic actions by other divisions of the CIA that apparently had no connection with the surveillance of dissidents...
...since January 1973, when the Paris Accords supposedly brought peace, had the fighting in Indochina been so bloody. Following up their capture of Phuoc Long province earlier this month (TIME, Jan. 20), Communist forces last week kept relentless pressure on the Saigon government with small-unit action throughout the country. Saigon claimed that in the nine days following the fall of Phuoc Binh, capital of Phuoc Long, 3,066 Communist soldiers were killed while 484 government troops died and 1,661 were wounded...
...Saigon, where government troops tried to block Communist efforts to push into rice-rich coastal regions. Viet Cong shells fell intermittently on several towns like Bien Hoa near Saigon while south of the capital, in the economically crucial Mekong Delta, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in small-unit action disrupted river and road communications and raided small government outposts in an effort to push Saigon's men back into provincial capitals and district towns. Saigon's response was to take to the air with more than 100 sorties daily against Communist antiaircraft positions and supply convoys...