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However, despite the new committees and the passage of the 1980 Intelligence Oversight Act, which incorporated the covert action-finding requirement of the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, the Iran-Contra scandal served as a rude awakening that important gaps remained in the new system of congressional oversight of covert action.
Sep 2, 2016 · Covert Action Information Bulletin Issue 10 August September 1980 CIA Manual On Deep Cover Bookreader Item Preview
doesn’t need CIA’s experience in Nicaragua during the 1980s to s ee that covert action, to be successful, needs a workable foreign policy context; it is evident from the first years of the Agency’s existence. During the Truman years, the absence of a coherent plan to fit covert action seamlessly into overall US Cold War objec-
4 ‘Note on Covert Action’, Office of the Historian, FRUS, 1977–1980 XX Eastern Europe, p. xxxix. Likewise, one of the leading Soviet disinformation specialists, Ladislav Bittman, conceded that ‘you have no reliable measurement device’.
Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, the CIA launched its largest-ever covert action program to arm the Afghan resistance. During the next ten years, the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan provided the Afghans with billions of dollars of weapons and supplies, including advanced anti-aircraft missiles.
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Jul 19, 1992 · July 18, 1992 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. A specially equipped C-141 Starlifter transport carrying William Casey touched down at a military air base south of Islamabad in October 1984 for a secret visit by ...
