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...comment, "No flames in the film. Too quiet." But generally, the networks have matured since the days when "Shoot bloody" was the watchword of Viet Nam War coverage, and they are constantly evaluating their own performance. Last week NBC News President Reuven Frank reminded his staff in a memo that "misleading practice" has been forbidden for years and noted, "I get as weary of being called on to be Caesar's only wife as you do." By and large, the networks' editors have done well in maintaining their purity. The only major recent controversy, other than the Pentagon...
Even so, Barr's supporters suspected his critics of plotting to fill two board vacancies with anti-Barr members, who would then swing a new vote to kick him out. Three weeks ago, the supporters mailed each parent a 21-page memo fingering Psychiatrist Myron Hofer, president of the P.T.A., as a chief anti-Barr plotter. Since Hofer represented the P.T.A. on the board, the memo urged parents to vote him out of office and thus oft7 the board...
Each Agent and SRA receiving this memo should discreetly contact appropriate sources and informants in line with Bureau instructions. Efforts should be made to have informants and sources attend the conference...
...first memo, a December, 1970 directive from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, called for increased surveillance of black student unions and other black groups on campuses. The other memo, entitled "New Left Notes- Philadelphia- Edition One" concerned the travel and fees of student informers...
...They came to tell me the truth," Weltner recalls. "We're only part of it, they said." And to prove it they gave him a remarkable eight page memo describing the "Phoenix" program, a U. S. operation designed, as Weltner ironically described it, to eliminate the "Viet Cong Infrastructure, which has prevented the pacification program from taking hold of the hearts of the people...