Word: ameses
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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...
Even before he 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...
The CIA director apparently came to the same conclusion last week. Under fire for his handling of the Ames spy scandal and fed up with bureaucratic battles, he telephoned President Clinton on the day after Christmas and announced his leave taking. He then typed out a resignation letter, videotaped a...
When the Ames case broke, Woolsey acted like a lawyer defending a client rather than a director intent on cleaning up the worst spy scandal in the agency's history. Woolsey has estimated that Ames compromised more than 100 operations, which led to the death of at least 10 Soviet...
Supporters of Woolsey argue that he inherited many of the CIA's worst problems. Ames' spying did not occur on his watch. Nor did decades of sexual discrimination in the agency, which prompted 100 female case officers to threaten a class-action lawsuit. The CIA recently settled for $410,000...