Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 14. Juli 1970 / Time Line July 14, 1970
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Undergravende virksomhed
Præsident Nixon godkender en plan om udvidet efterretningsvirksomhed i USA, Huston-planen.
07/14/1970
Subversion
President Nixon approves a plan for expanded intelligence
activities in the United States, the Huston Plan.
Literature: History Commons Context of 'July 14, 1970:
Nixon Approves ‘Huston Plan’ for Domestic
Surveillance'.
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http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a071470nixonapproveshuston
'President Nixon approves the “Huston Plan” for greatly
expanding domestic intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other
agencies. Four days later he rescinds his approval. [Washington
Post, 2008] Nixon aide Tom Charles Huston comes up with the plan,
which involves authorizing the CIA, FBI, NSA, and military
intelligence agencies to escalate their electronic surveillance of
“domestic security threats” in the face of supposed
threats from Communist-led youth agitators and antiwar groups (see
June 5, 1970). The plan would also authorize the surreptitious
reading of private mail, lift restrictions against surreptitious
entries or break-ins to gather information, plant informants on
college campuses, and create a new, White House-based
“Interagency Group on Domestic Intelligence and Internal
Security.” Huston’s Top Secret memo warns that parts of
the plan are “clearly illegal.” Nixon approves the
plan, but rejects one element—that he personally authorize
any break-ins. Nixon orders that all information and operations to
be undertaken under the new plan be channeled through his chief of
staff, H. R. Haldeman, with Nixon deliberately being left out of
the loop. The first operations to be undertaken are using the
Internal Revenue Service to harass left-wing think tanks and
charitable organizations such as the Brookings Institution and the
Ford Foundation.'
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