The History of Terrorism
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"There was an agreement in principle that, yes indeed, we would help each other. The question of cover came up on several occasions. ...
1970 Operation Tailwind (9/11/1970-9/13/1970)
1998 CNN - Valley of Death Investigative Report
1998 Until 1998, the Department of Defense stated officially that Project SHAD did not exist. Because the DoD refused to acknowledge the program, surviving test subjects have been unable to obtain disability payments for health issues related to the...
2010 In an interview in 2010 with the Television Academy Foundation, he was asked if he had ever disclosed the truth to anyone, including his wife. "No, never," Barris said. "I'll never say, one way or the other".
50 U.S. Code - 3093 - Presidential approval and reporting of covert actions
According to US law the White House and the CIA are legally allowed to lie about covert operations.
Black operation (or black ops)
Chuck Barris
Filibuster (military)
Shadow Warfare: The History of America's Undeclared Wars (book)
The arrangement with the United States concerning Japanese WMD research provided extensive Japanese technical information in exchange for not pursuing certain charges and also allowed Japan's government...
The CIA denied Barris ever worked for them in any capacity. After the release of the movie, CIA spokesman Paul Nowack said Barris' assertions that he worked for the spy agency "[are] ridiculous. It's absolutely not true".
The thinking became "If we can impact the regime, then no bomb, " said another former official. "We're playing semantics - destabilization is functionally the same thing as regime change. It's a deniability issue, " the former official said.
The U.S. would not cooperate when the Soviet Union attempted to pursue war crimes charges against the Japanese. General Douglas MacArthur denied the U.S. Military had any captured records on Japan's military biological program.
US covert operations that do not include special ops (excluded from congressional oversight)