Word: covertness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Intelligence, which is investigating charges of agency involvement in the scandal, will soon produce some answers. Nobody has managed to nail down a charge, aired in a series of articles in the Houston Post, that the CIA used fraudulently obtained S&L money to fund some of its covert operations, including support for the now defunct Nicaraguan contra rebels. But there is more evidence for a second Post allegation: that a Justice Department prosecutor investigating a bank failure in 1985 was warned off by FBI agents because one of his targets had CIA ties. The House committee, which questioned...
...much for Ollie's vaunted respect for superiors. But he was not alone. Almost everyone held William Casey at arm's length in those days. A major scandal had just surfaced: in a covert arms-for-hostages deal, the Great Satan had sold weapons to its enemy, Iran. Profits had been diverted to the Nicaraguan contras. Casey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, would be summoned to testify about what he knew and when he knew...
...intifadeh. No wonder the Foreign Ministry launched a public relations campaign about a decade ago intended to package for international consumption upbeat stories on such subjects as Israeli science and medicine. Last week it was revealed that the country's legitimate public relations effort has been paralleled by a covert one: the New York Times reported that for years the Foreign Ministry has secretly paid free-lance radio reporters to do progovernment stories that were then marketed as objective news...
...growing increasingly alarmed at the possibility of a return to power by the Khmer Rouge forces, which were responsible for the death of at least 1 million fellow Cambodians during their reign of terror from 1975 to 1978. Last month the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted against further covert aid to the tripartite coalition; the corresponding House committee was expected to follow suit. Two weeks ago, a bipartisan group of 11 Senators circulated a letter asking the Administration to alter its policy...
...spent the past year and a half distancing himself from Ronald Reagan. His White House press room is used for press conferences, not games of hide-and-seek; his First Lady prefers gardening in slacks to hostessing in a designer dress. Even the phrase "kinder, gentler" was a covert, backward-looking rebuke: Kinder and gentler than...