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As the Reagan administration set about implementing the Heritage Foundation plan in Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua, it first attempted to do so covertly, not as part of official policy.

" The Reagan government's initial implementation of the Heritage plan was done covertly ," according to the book Rollback, " following the longstanding custom that containment can be overt but rollback should be covert.

" Ultimately, however, the administration supported the policy more openly.