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    overriding basic moral decency. Built on racial discrimination and segregation, apartheid developed a distorting effect on society by encouraging and promoting the worst of human behaviors. Violence and brutality defined apartheid over its 47 years of operation. Even with these effects and many others in full view of South African citizens and the world, the underbelly of apartheid, marked by deceit, paranoia, torture, and murder reveals how the system created space for twisted individuals to…

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    misappropriated, regulate intelligence programs, and spying is not conducted on American citizens. However, even with providing oversight into Intelligence it does not mean that Congress knows about all covert missions conducted. This is because the President of the United States holds emergency power over covert operations and has the ability to authorize missions without Congresses knowledge. This means the White House holds the power to control classification and withhold access to include…

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    advance ideological objective” (Schwab, p.115). These attacks can be performed by individuals or by groups. They may also be either overt or covert attacks. An example of an overt attack is when planes were hijacked on September 11, 2001, destroying the twin towers at the World Trade Center in New York and hitting the Pentagon in Washington D.C. A covert attack may be a biological attack by releasing a virus or infection…

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    Even though it may not be as well recognized, this era also saw the growth of the CIA and its attempts to influence world politics (Schultz, 2015, A Cold War, Not A Hot One section, Covert Operations subsection,…

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    simultaneously increased spending for Strategic Air Command, and expanded procurement for atomic delivery systems (100-101). Furthermore, the Eisenhower administration identified three complementary efforts to stymie Communist advances: CIA covert operations, aiding…

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    Constitutional oversight. Assange also defines the end of the era of Internet privacy for civilian Internet users, which vindicates Assange and other whistleblowers, such as Edward Snowden, in the revelations of secret U.S. documents that reveal mass-spying operations by the NSA and other data collecting agencies.…

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    Open your eyes. The girls open their eyes. Joe walks over to his desk and sits on it with one foot on the floor and the other hanging loosely off the side. • JOE: Yep. You girls are pretty smart. But you’re also kind of stupid. Welcome to Covert Operations. I’m Joe Solomon. I’ve never taught before, but I’ve been doing this stuff for eighteen years, and I’m still breathing , so that means I know what I’m talking about. This is not going to be like your other classes. Cammie’s stomach growls.…

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    hat nuclear warfare had. Nuclear power is much more powerful than the heavy artillery that World War I fighters used while in the trenches. The Holocaust of Jewish people by the Nazis is exclusive to World War II while the Ottoman Empire’s, or Turkey’s, genocide of Armenians was exclusive to World War I6. The sequence in which the two World Wars took place varies greatly. World War I started when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, as the country wanted to reaffirm its right to…

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    Abstract: Was the capture of former Nazi officials by covert United States operatives and subsequent integration into their Space Program justified? The capture and relocation of German scientists in Operation Paperclip was justified because the achievements of the captured scientists led to the United States victory in the Space Race, it prevented the Soviets from gaining the intellectual of the German scientists (who preferred being captured by the Americans) and using it against the Americans…

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    The plan was codenamed Operation (OP) Pluto when Kennedy was updated on it on January 28th, just 8 days after his inauguration. (Simkin, Bay of Pigs) OP Pluto was the result of a CIA paper by the name of JMARC written in March of 1960 by the CIA’s Chief of Operations, Richard Bissell. It drew heavily on the covert tactics of a previous CIA policy paper called ‘PBSUCCESS’, the plan that led to the resignation of Guatemala’s…

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