Loosen the Knots and Tangles

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Phoenix Source Distributors, Inc., 1992 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 231 pages
 

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Page 52 - The sums made available to the Agency may be expended without regard to the provisions of law and regulations relating to the expenditure of Government funds; and for objects of a confidential, extraordinary, or emergency nature, such expenditures to be accounted for solely on the certificate of the Director and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein certified.
Page 129 - ... (4) to perform, for the benefit of the existing intelligence agencies, such additional services of common concern as the National Security Council determines can be more efficiently accomplished centrally; (5) to perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time direct.
Page 35 - Government agencies' requirements. CAT supports covert and clandestine air operations by providing trained and experienced personnel, procurement of supplies and equipment through overt commercial channels, and the maintenance of a fairly large inventory of transport and other type aircraft under both Chinat and US registry.
Page 229 - internal security function" over which the CIA has no authority. The court concludes that activities by the CIA to protect its foreign intelligence sources located in the United States are within the power granted by Congress to the CIA. By extension, it might also be argued that any "foreign intelligence source" located in the United States, emigre" or not, is fair game for the CIA.
Page 222 - Directorate contracted out every year to private companies and "think tanks.") Research of this type included the development ( INSERT ITEM 275 ) commonly used). In many cases, the CIA's research involvement on the campuses went much deeper than simply serving as the patron of scholarly work. In 1951, CIA money was used to set up the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A key figure at the MIT Center was Walt Rostow, a political scientist with intelligence...
Page 172 - I am today instructing the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs...
Page 141 - Science and a senior staff member of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: He is Chairman of the Committee on Comparative Politics of the Social Science Research Council.
Page 120 - To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Page 128 - The team printed what appeared to be "leaflets signed by the Vietminh instructing Tonkinese on how to behave for the Vietminh takeover of the Hanoi region in early October, including items about property, money reform and a threeday holiday of workers upon take-over.
Page 202 - We need to get our people to put out the story on the foreign or Communist money that was used in support of demonstrations against the President in 1972. We should tie all 1972 demonstrations to McGovern and thus to the Democrats as part of the peace movement.

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