41.  So influential voices have begun to call for something more than bombing, special forces raids and covert action.

42.  Should using the CIA in covert action be a weapon in our foreign policy?

43.  Step Three is a presidential finding for covert action, with close oversight but no second-guessing.

44.  The agency was created to analyze intelligence, not for covert action.

45.  The CIA destroyed the leaflets, but agency officials shuddered over the notion of a politically correct covert action.

46.  The chief planner of the coup, Dr. Donald Wilber, who wrote the history, thus came away from Iran with a fatalistic view of covert action.

47.  The CIA also succeeded in persuading President Eisenhower and the National Security Council to allow it to conduct covert political action.

48.  The heart of the matter, Specter and Holbrooke agreed, is that there is no evidence that any covert action was undertaken.

49.  The Select Committee on Intelligence will investigate whether the administration conducted a covert action without a legal basis or Congressional notification.

50.  The regime also could be responding to reports of U.S. covert action and trying to deprive operatives of cover.