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Sketches were not always on target. To no avail, one set of Pentagon planners consulted psychics to pinpoint where Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was staying before U.S. warplanes attacked Libya in 1986. Another intelligence unit asked psychics to picture where an agent suspected of being a double stashed the money he made spying for the other side. (They could not say.) "Sometimes it seems that these people are right on," says Jessica Utts, a statistician at the University of California at Davis who contributed to the CIA study. "But nobody knows when those times come...
...intelligence hasn't always been very, well, intelligent. That's the conclusion of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has released its review of an internal CIA report concerning the impact of tainted information supplied by convicted double agent Aldrich Ames. The CIA took "an enormous risk that may have jeopardized the U.S. national security interests," the committee's report concludes, by failing to alert government officials and policymakers that some agency information was actually being provided by the KGB. Senators Arlen Specter and Bob Kerrey, who led the Senate inquiry, also faulted CIA Director John Deutch for understating impact...
...reportedly rated by his handlers as a good operative--was not truly blind and deaf to the plans, why did the security service fail to act? This key, and so far unanswered, question has spawned a host of conspiracy theories. Right-wing circles are calling Raviv an agent provocateur who purposefully incited anti-Rabin fanaticism. An alternate, even wilder theory holds that Shin Bet actually plotted a faked assassination attempt in order to smear opponents of the peace process. Under this scenario agents supposedly gave Amir a gun loaded with blanks, but his brother betrayed the Shin Bet by substituting...
...Bond given in to complete commercialism? You bet your Walther PPK. The BMW appears just for show, and a fat American CIA agent does most of the driving. But product endorsements aren't limited to German cars--a bottle of Smirnoff Vodka just happens to end up on a certain Russian desk, label turned conspicuously outward...
...both the 200 and 400 gold medals, he also anchored the victorious U.S. 4x400-meter relay team. After that performance, Nebiolo, the Italian who rules the IAAF with an iron hand, said he would consider the unusual though not unprecedented step of altering the schedule. According to Johnson's agent, Brad Hunt, "What Michael is hoping is that the two events get completely separated. He wants to finish one before he starts the other." Both Johnson and the Atlanta organizing committee were expecting a decision in October; they're still waiting...