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SAVINGS COVERT ACTION FROM OLLIE NORTH.
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Debates whether covert actions conducted on behalf of the people of the U.S. should operate under at least some kind of democratic review and constraint. Argument of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North that covert activities inevitably lead to suspension of both democracy and the rule of law; Plan of North and the late CIA director William Casey to turn the Iran-contra operation into a permanent floating covert operations agency, totally secret and totally outside all normal government channels; Contention that essence of covert action is secrecy, and secrecy requires deception.
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