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Charles G. Cogan's Covert Action And Congressional Oversight

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Charles G Cogan wrote explicitly on congressional oversight of covert actions in 1993. A historian, Cogan is an associate of the Belfer Center’s International Security Program at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government. Prior to Harvard, Cogan served as a CIA operative for 37 years, mostly spent overseas, including his term as the CIA Chief in Paris. His practical career with the CIA and his experiences as an academic in International Security give him a degree of authority over activities conducted by the CIA. In his article, Covert Action and Congressional Oversight. A Deontology, Cogan spends a great deal of time detailing the history and transformations of congressional oversight, while then offering some insights regarding the
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