Word: aldrich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these kinds of systems, so why would they trust their own secrets on them?" asks a computer expert who works for the cia. Only in the past two years has the Directorate allowed its sensitive files to be put on the CIA's main computer system. After agency turncoat Aldrich Ames was uncovered, the Directorate took its E-mail address list off the main computer system, fearing that future moles could browse through it to identify case officers. (Fortunately for the cia, Ames told agency investigators after he was captured that the Russians never asked him to hack the system...
President Clinton named retired Air Force General Michael Carns to head the cia, which remains demoralized by the Aldrich Ames spy scandal. A decorated Vietnam War veteran and respected administrator, Carns was chosen, in part, because he is an outsider to the intelligence community. Initial reaction on Capitol Hill was positive...
...figures out how to deploy his spies, Carns will have to deal with the bureaucratic miasma of the agency. Morale is at rock bottom. Young case officers are privately demanding a housecleaning of top officials in the clandestine Directorate for Operations, whose lax management and protective culture allowed Aldrich Ames to get away with selling secrets to Moscow for nine years. Last December the CIA settled a lawsuit with former Jamaican station chief Janine Brookner for $410,000 plus lawyers' fees. Brookner claimed she was denied promotions after she disciplined subordinates for drinking, carousing and, in one case, wife beating...
After enduring months of criticism for his handling of fallout from the Aldrich Ames spy case, CIA Director James Woolsey -- also under fire for his halting attempts to reorganize the agency -- threw up his hands and resigned. The vacancy at the agency comes as a presidential commission takes up the task of redefining the role of the CIA. Some possible successors: Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch and former House Intelligence Committee chairman Dave McCurdy...
...what finally cost him his job, associates say, was that he spent too much time playing a defensive game. He got into fights with Senators over minor items in the $28 billion intelligence budget and gave out meager punishments to officials who had ignored warning signs that agent Aldrich Ames was a Soviet mole. Even worse, large parts of the CIA's operation bored Woolsey, and its insular culture frustrated him. He once complained to an associate that the agency "needed a psychiatrist, not a manager." Senior agency hands were miffed when he put a cipher lock on the door...