Limits on Covert Action

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Moderator:
Fotis Hasiotis
Secrecy and U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium

Panelists:

The Legitimacy of Covert Action and Secrecy: Sorting the Moral Responsibilities of American Citizens and Their Public Servants
Mr. Lincoln Bloomfield, Jr.
Special assistant, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Lebanon Country Director and Deputy Country Director for Jordan, Syria and Palestinian Affairs, 1981-85, Southeast Asia, 1986, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Covert Action in a Just War
Mr. William Colby
Reid & Priest; Director, Central Intelligence Agency, 1973-76; author, Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA

Covert Action Under A Government of Separated and Shared Powers
Mr. Lloyd Cutler
Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering; Chief Counsel to President Carter, 1979-81; Chairman, Brookings Council, Brookings Institution

The Case for Prohibiting Covert Operations
Mr. Morton Halperin
Director, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington Office; Director, Center for national Security Studies; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1967-69; author, National Security & Civil Liberties

Covert Action Must Be an Integral Part of open National policies
Mr. Franklin Lindsay
Vice chair, The Committee for Economic Development; Chairman of the Intelligence Study Group, the Institute of Politics, Harvard University, 1976; CIA, 1949-53; head, U.S. Military Mission to Tito, 1945; OSS officer with the Yugoslav Partisans, 1944

What are the Limits of Covert Action? The Conductibility of Covert Action in a Democracy
Professor Richard Shultz, Jr.
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; co-author, Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy; co-editor, Special Operations in U.S Strategy

Interlocutor:

Mr. Scott Armstrong
Executive Director, National Security Archive; former investigative reporter, The Washington Post; senior investigator, Senate Watergate Committee

Conference Wrap-up

Peter Grekin
Secrecy and U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium

Catherine Young
Secrecy and U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium

Scott Armstrong
National Security Archive

Sherman Teichman
Secrecy and U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium