A C.I.A. spokesman declined to discuss covert funding to Yemen.
The Pentagon consultant added that one difficulty, in terms of oversight, was accounting for covert funds.
The evidence of the agency's covert funding system was hidden in plain sight.
The US has also engaged in covert funding in Pakistan to achieve its goals.
Some of the newly authorized covert funds, the Pentagon consultant told me, may well end up in M.E.K. coffers.
One intelligence document, inadvertently left behind at one aid agency and seen by the Guardian, directs operatives to investigate the "covert funding" and "covert operations" of international NGOs.
And so, on the same day the Ramparts ads appeared, both newspapers ran articles on the C.I.A.'s covert funding of the N.S.A.
I do not know if the C.I.A. officers responsible for funding Partisan Review had these consequences in mind, but it was certainly a good use of covert funding.
The left thought that it was propping up the status quo, and was probably a front for the C.I.A. to boot (and, in fact, the C.I.A. was using other foundations for covert funding).
Wilson was the Texas congressman who helped to mobilize covert funds to arm and train more than a hundred thousand Afghan rebels to successfully oppose the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
