The book of Honor (2009)
The book of Honor
“though it began in the spring. That April 15, 1967, some 300,000 demonstrators, among them Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., activist and pediatrician Benjamin Spock, and folk singer Pete Seeger, came together for a peace march through New York City in protest of the undeclared war in Vietnam. For the CIA it was to be a particularly trying year. An article in a magazine called Ramparts drew national attention to the CIA’s secret funding of American student groups, educational foundations, and volun...tary organizations operating overseas. In response to the public outcry that followed, President Lyndon Johnson set up a commission to investigate the scope of CIA involvement in such groups. It would be the first of many such revelations to rock the Agency, whose natural instinct was to close ranks, further isolating it from the mainstream of American culture.That same year, budgetary cutbacks at the State Department reduced the number of cover positions available to CIA case officers. Congress was taking an ever-greater interest in intelligence matters.MoreLess
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