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...welter of publicity that followed the Chile revelations, much of the evidence confirmed that the CIA had indeed from time to time violated its charter and the constitutional rights of Americans, not to mention common sense. A number of these violations can be blamed on the zealotry, villainy or stupidity of some CIA operatives, especially among the "spooks," or covert-action specialists. Many other abuses were, at root, presidential abuses. For example, the agency's illegal surveillance of the anti-Viet Nam War movement reflected Lyndon Johnson's obsessive suspicion that Communist infiltrators were behind much...
...welter of testimony, the jurors might well have been bewildered. It was up to the plaintiffs to convince at least nine jurors that a preponderance of evidence showed that the defendants had been negligent and that the plaintiffs were entitled to collect damages...
...early 1950s: morale is falling, effectiveness is diminishing, recruiting is becoming tougher, and good men are wary of committing their thoughts to paper in memos and recommendations that might come back to haunt them some day. Last week the pressure on the besieged CIA continued with a welter of new accusations...
...resort-town whatsit shops, where summer visitors unload old paperbacks, a good used thriller is rarely in stock. Biographies, gothics, sex novels abound. But whodunits tend to linger on in vacation cottages until, in a welter of unglued clues, they spill apart. This summer at least four volumes will be read to shreds by season...
...there was really doing a good job," he says. "In the economic and financial areas there were some very good Vietnamese and some very devoted and sincere Vietnamese--extremely able and also extremely patriotic. I can't say the same for some of the corps commanders--but in the welter of recriminations there's a tendency to forget what was good...