US covert operations were justified as necessary for national security.
Evidence
The National Security Council, taking cognizance of the vicious covert activities of the USSR, its satellite countries and Communist groups to discredit and defeat the aims and activities of the United States and other Western powers, has determined that, in the interests of world peace and US national security, the overt foreign activities of the US Government must be supplemented by covert operations. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 385
Categorization
- XREF: This connects to discussions on political accountability and governmental secrecy. — connects to: Truman authorized covert operations to induce trouble in Russia. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 981; U.S. officials collaborated with murderous regimes to secure base access overseas.; National security justifications for the New Cold War mask the real cause — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 555
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 385
Library Connections
- Truman authorized covert operations to induce trouble in Russia.
#exemplifies(0.85) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 981