Since he's writing an academic monograph Smith is free to cough gently and point out that the evidence for X is underwhelming, the subversive activities of Y were nugatory, or – of bugged conversations about the leftist Theatre Workshop – that "whatever its covert origin, none of this evidence gathered by MI5 indicated illegal activity or even anything particularly sinister".
These efforts are comprehensive and include tackling illegal fishing, trans-shipment at sea, forgery of origin, covert landings, etc.
A thoughtful solution could reveal the true origin of covert foreign messaging using lessons from a financial sector that has led the world in both transparency and accountability.
That back-room bargain, described in detail for the first time in interviews with more than a dozen officials in Pakistan and the United States, is critical to understanding the origins of a covert drone war that began under the Bush administration, was embraced and expanded by President Obama, and is now the subject of fierce debate.
Strategic Plans had its origin in a covert section of the Pakistani Army's General Headquarters, which was created in the early nineteen-nineties.
We can't be held responsible for their actions". Yet in three separate opinions in the past year, the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress that studies the federal government and its expenditures, has held that government-made news segments may constitute improper "covert propaganda" even if their origin is made clear to the television stations.
From its origins in 1977 as a covert program to destabilize the Soviet Union through ethnic violence and radical Islam in Afghanistan, Soviet Georgia, Azerbaijan and Chechnya, a straight line can be drawn to the alleged perpetrator of the Orlando massacre from theories, practices and policies implemented by Brzezinski prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Edwards' Dodo, a 1626 painting by Roelant Savery, shows several birds including a blue and yellow macaw, which is different from the mainland bird in having yellow undertail covert feathers instead of blue, but the origin of this macaw is unknown.
Never swerving from his menswear origins, Armani tailors his new woman in tweeds and covert cloth by day, plastic sequins by night.
The most explosive revolves around the claims of an American businessman of Pakistani origin, Mansoor Ijaz, that President Zardari's allies sought covert United States government assistance to stave off a possible coup last May in the feverish aftermath of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Australia's movement has its origins in a 1994 decision by the Keating government to downgrade covert military support for the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF), who were brutally suppressing Bougainville's independence struggle.
