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Mobutu rose to power in part because of his native ability as a leader and orator and his physical courage in the face of danger, qualities that impressed the CIA and other sponsors. "I was given a number of individuals to spot and assess," recalls Larry Devlin, the CIA agent who guided Mobutu in the early 1960s. "Even though he was only 29 at the time, everyone who saw him recognized his intelligence and personal presence; he acted like an African leader -- understanding his supporters as well as his opponents; he was the best political mind on the scene." Mobutu...
...guards' allegations are at the center of an ongoing University investigation into the security guard unit. A probe last spring cleared security supervisors of all allegations. Earlier this month, James A. Ring, a former FBI agent hired by General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall, began interviewing guards as part of a new probe, which is being conducted under the auspices of Marshall's office...
THINGS HAVE BECOME SO CONFUSED AS THE CLINTON WHITE House races to fill hundreds of top Administration posts that one senior agency official learned that she had got the job only when a government travel agent called to tell her that her tickets were ready. What tickets? For that delegation to Europe she was heading...
...talks with the Carlyle Group, a Washington investment firm headed by his old mentor and boss, former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci. (Two other rumored Carlyle hires: former Secretary of State James Baker and Budget Director Dick Darman.) Powell, who lives in government housing, has asked a real estate agent to find a home for him in the $1 million range, a figure not ordinarily within the military pay scale. His aides claim that the general is just house hunting before his Sept. 30 departure from the chairmanship...
...investigators have worked together in the past. Ring was the FBI agent assigned to the Kelly case...