With the help of Air America and covert aid from Thailand, the general and his troops moved north toward Vientiane from Savannakhet in southern Laos, in November.

Questions about the covert methods employed by Irdeto Intelligence in the identification of copyrighted works and DMCA takedown process have generated hostility toward the company from the Internet file sharing community.

In June 1948, Kennan proposed covert support of left-wing parties not oriented toward Moscow and to labor unions in Western Europe in order to engineer a rift between Moscow and working-class movements in Western Europe.

The main source for the affair is a mythology à clef by Synesius of Cyrene, Aegyptus sive de providentia, ( 400 ) an Egyptianising allegory that embodies a covert account of the events, the exact interpretation of which continues to baffle scholars.

* Suzette Haden Elgin's engineered secret language Láadan, with its covert gestural form, which is central to the Native Tongue series of novels

William had been trying to influence English politics for well over a year, letting Grand Pensionary Gaspar Fagel publish an open letter to the English people in November 1687 deploring the religious policy of James, which action had generally been interpreted as a covert bid for kingship.

Haldeman also discusses the covert sensitization method, which involves instructing patients to imagine vomiting or receiving electric shocks, writing that only single case studies have been conducted, and that their results cannot be generalized.

when both rights and reason are under several kinds of open and covert attack, the life and writing of Thomas Paine will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend.

At the time of the Sheraton Hotel incident, the extant Ministerial Directive permitted ASIS to undertake ' covert action ', including ' special operations ' which, roughly described, comprised ' unorthodox, possibly para-military activity, designed to be used in case of war or some other crisis '.

The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an " extensive testing and experimentation " program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens " at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.

This cautious approach was well advised, but still the numerous incidents of covert and open hostility between the Franks and the Greeks on their line of march, for which it seems both sides were to blame, nearly precipitated a conflict between Manuel and his guests.

These measurements test both overt honesty, the thoughts one has about blatant dishonesty such as stealing, and covert honesty, which is very similar to conscientiousness and dependability.

Licio Gelli's downfall started with the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, which led to a 1981 police raid on his villa and the discovery of the P2 covert lodge.

" Breen specifically objected to " the generally unflattering portrayal of our system of Government, which might well lead to such a picture being considered, both here, and more particularly abroad, as a covert attack on the Democratic form of government.

The night before the launching of the actions against North Vietnamese facilities on Hòn Mê and Hòn Ngư islands, the SOG had launched a covert long-term agent team into North Vietnam, which was promptly captured.

* 1998: In the US, Time Magazine and CNN ran news stories alleging that in 1970 U. S. Air Force A-1E Skyraiders engaged in a covert operation called Operation Tailwind, in which they deliberately dropped sarin-containing weapons on U. S. troops who had defected in Laos.

Its name is the most meaningful pun in the story: outwardly it is an Eccentric ( drop-out from the Culture ) which dedicates its enormous resources to presenting tableaux of historical events ( mainly battles ) populated by passengers in suspended animation ; but in fact it is a sleeping member of Special Circumstances, the Culture's covert operations organization.

" A scholiast, commenting on the passage, wrote: " Simonides seems to have been the first to introduce money-grabbing into his songs and to write a song for pay " and, as proof of it, quoted a passage from one of Pindar's odes (" For then the Muse was not yet fond of profit nor mercenary "), which he interpreted as covert criticism of Simonides.

Gordon Gray assumed the chairmanship of the " 5412 Committee " as it was called, and all succeeding National Security Advisers have chaired similar successor committees, variously named " 303 ", " 40 ", " Special Coordinating Committee ," which, in later Presidential administrations, were charged with the review of CIA covert operations.

Allegedly he also played a central role in covert attempts to sabotage the 1968 Paris Peace Accords which could have ended the Vietnam War.

He instigated the creation of the League as a covert ops unit with plausible deniability and used them to recover an anti-gravity mineral called Cavorite which had been stolen by his crime lord rival The Doctor.

It became the county seat of Hidalgo County in a dramatic, nighttime covert operation in which the county records were removed from the previous county seat, Hidalgo, Texas.

The SSU / OSO component which handled intelligence gathering and covert operations, of course, formed only a part of the CIA's sphere of activity.

Under the impression that he had been infected with the fatal disease hyper-malaria during a covert quasi-military mission for Mom, the Professor asked Zoidberg, whom he had previously saved from a yeti, to promise that when the latent disease would manifest itself in later years that Zoidberg would euthanize him, to which he agreed.

These special activities include covert political influence ( which includes psychological operations ) and paramilitary operations.

What went unstated at the time was that the U. S. already had a covert satellite program underway, WS-117, which was developing the ability to launch spy satellites using USAF Thor IRBMs.

Initially, the Court of Chancery would not entertain a request to administer an estate as soon as a flaw in the will was discovered, rather leaving it to the ecclesiastical courts, but from 1588 onwards the Court did deal with such requests, in four situations: where it was alleged that there were insufficient assets ; where it was appropriate to force a legatee to give a bond to creditors ( which could not be done in the ecclesiastical courts ); to secure femme covert assets from a husband ; and where the deceased's debts had to be paid before the legacies were valid.

* In the 1950s America was the center of covert and overt conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States.

The United States also maintained espionage and covert operations in various other areas, such as Latin America in the 1980s.

Under the Reagan Doctrine, the U. S. provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to " roll back " Soviet-backed communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

This army, supported by the CIA proprietary airline Air America, Thailand, the Royal Lao Air Force, and a covert air operation directed by the United States ambassador to Laos, fought the People's Army of Vietnam, the National Liberation Front ( NLF ), and their Pathet Lao allies to a seesaw stalemate, greatly aiding U. S. interests in the war in Vietnam.

A notable event was the use of Civil Air Transport, which later morphed into Air America, in a covert operation to fly supplies to the embattled French in Dien Bien Phu.

Air America U-10D Helio Courier aircraft in Laos on a covert mountaintop landing strip ( LS ) " Lima site "

As a result large amounts of covert French supplies and munitions were smuggled to America.

In 1768, he traveled to America on a covert mission to determine the level of discontent amongst colonists by de Choiseul, on behalf of France.

CounterPunch, a critic of RWB, cited Reich's involvement with the group as a source of controversy: when Reich headed the Reagan administration's Office of Public Diplomacy in the 1980s, the body partook in what its officials termed " White Propaganda " – covert dissemination of information to influence domestic opinion regarding US backing for military campaigns against Left-wing governments in Latin America.

Eisler, who was supposed by many to be the covert leader and director of the Communist Party in America during and after the Second World War, became the centre of a diplomatic incident in 1949 when, having stowed away on a Polish ship out of New York, he was forcibly removed and arrested in Southampton.

The downfall of the traitors Wray and Ledward in the previous book has restored order in British intelligence circles, and Maturin-now the secret owner of Surprise-plans to use her privateering as cover for a covert anti-Spanish mission to South America.

The airline Air America, an outgrowth of Civil Air Transport of the 1940s, and Southern Air Transport, ostensibly a civilian air charter company, were operated and wholly owned by the CIA, supposedly to provide humanitarian aid, but flew many combat support missions and supplied covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.

While serving with Air Troop, B Squadron, 22 SAS for ten years, McNab worked on both covert and overt operations worldwide, which included counter terrorism and drug operations in the Middle East and Far East, South and Central America and Northern Ireland.

* In the 1950s, Latin America was the center of covert and overt conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States.

It reached its zenith in the late 18th century when Britain's wars with America and France precipated the high taxation of many imported goods, making it worthwhile for the local fishermen to boost their income by the covert importation of spirits, tobacco and other goods from Guernsey.

AnsettMAL, which operated a single example in the New Guinea highlands, and AMOCO Ecuador were early customers, as was Air America ( a CIA front in South East Asia during the Vietnam War era for covert operations ).

She has a PhD in World Politics from The Catholic University of America ; her thesis was on the overt and covert war in Angola, A Case Study of the Implementation of the Reagan Doctrine.

A founding member of the Communist Party of the United States of America ( CPUSA ), around 1930 Golos became involved in the covert work of Soviet intelligence agencies, including the procurement of American passports by means of fraudulent documentation and the recruitment and coordination of the activities of a broad network of agents.

The Special Intelligence Service was a covert counterintelligence branch of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) located in South America during World War II.

Meanwhile, the now aging and whitehaired Chip is sent by the FBI to relieve the duties of three agents in an unspecified South American country after their identities had been compromised ( the CIA did not yet exist at the time, and U. S. wartime covert activities in Latin America were directed by the FBI's Special Intelligence Service ).

The fact that the United States of America was providing covert and overt support to opposition movements such as Unita in Angola and Renamo in Mozambique reflected the extension of the Cold War to Southern Africa.

Using covert operatives and the latest technology they gather information on technology, science, and economics in an effort to protect corporate America from espionage.

This series was based on characters from the Justice Society of America but portrayed them as covert government operatives in a World War II-era setting, rather than their traditional portrayal as superheroes fighting criminals.