Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...scholarly organizations in the world of this kind. I would hope to maintain it and strengthen it." But he has refused to talk about what CIA weak spots he might attack and has not yet read the Reagan transition task force's report that recommends an increase in covert CIA operations and the creation of a central records system shared by the CIA and domestic law-enforcement agencies...
...news did nothing to improve the already tarnished reputation of the Central Intelligence Agency. In Baltimore last week, a grand jury indicted David Barnett, 47, a former CIA covert agent, on a single count of selling top-secret information to the agency's Soviet counterpart, the KGB. Barnett allegedly fed the Soviets details about a CIA operation code-named HABRINK, set up to collect data on Soviet weaponry systems...
...joined the CIA in 1958 and served as an analyst with U.S. Army intelligence units in South Korea and Washington, D.C. From 1965 to 1967, he worked at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., as a staff officer in the directorate of operations, which ran the agency's worldwide covert activities. In 1967 Barnett was assigned to a diplomatic post in Indonesia, where he was responsible for recruit ing local Soviet officials to spy for the U.S. He quit the agency in 1970 to run an antiques-exporting firm in Indonesia, but apparently continued to work...
...then supplying Indonesia's President Sukarno with billions of dollars worth of military equipment. Indonesian naval officers, however, were selling some of the Soviet weapons, parts and manuals to the CIA. Barnett worked on the project under diplomatic cover. He may also have provided details on other covert activities he had known about during his directorate years. And as one former agency official put it, the KGB would surely have debriefed Barnett on CIA minutiae: "the weaknesses of colleagues; who was sleeping with whom; who had a drinking problem; who was unhappy-information that is really useful to them...
...half-crazed Soviet spy master who spells out his Plan is pure fiction, the creation of Journalists Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss in their new novel The Spike. The plan itself, according to U.S. intelligence experts, is all too factual. "Disinformation" refers mostly to covert falsification tactics used by the Soviet Union to further its propaganda aims. Examples of disinformation-a forged U.S. Army field manual, bogus vice-presidential statements critical of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat-occasionally surface in the Western press...