Word: covertly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...money and material aid to candidates and groups... either through covert means or openly through the distribution of 'pork-barrel' projects...
Amory, who said later that he felt as if he were "in a batting cage with three pitches coming in at once," then answered a steady stream of questions about issues ranging from C. I. A.-engineered coups in Guatemala and Iran to the covert C. I. A. funding of the National Student Association...
...also denounced the junta's suspension of civil liberties and covert press censorship. "If you compare it with the press law of Dr. Goebbel's under the Hitler regime, it is very similar," he said...
Last week the Army retreated, promising to conduct no more covert investigations of civilians without the Secretary of the Army's approval, and to recall the blacklist. It also promised to destroy information about domestic political activists stored on the Fort Holabird computer. But the Army still maintains extensive files on civilian political activists, and has no intention of ceasing its snooping altogether. With that in mind, the A.C.L.U. intends to press its court suit for a permanent injunction against all such Army surveillance activities...
Grinspoon added that "covert racism" may have played a part in anti-marijuana legislation. He explained that marijuana users in America were "predominantly non-caucasian" at the time the law was passed, and that speculations of harmful after-effects may have been linked to marijuana by way of racial prejudice...