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With a little prodding, Milt Bearden will talk about the exploding camel. It was back in the late 1980s, when Bearden was the CIA field commander in Islamabad, Pakistan, training Afghan guerrillas in their anti-Soviet insurgency. Bearden, now retired, says he was a conscientious teacher, imparting military instruction but simultaneously making sure that his students knew the difference between acts of war and acts of terrorism or human-rights violations. He expressly prohibited indiscriminate "wide area" attacks. "I said, 'Never, never, never do car bombs,'" he recalls. Rueful pause. "I never said, 'Don't do a camel bomb.'" That...
...Bearden made this observation last week as his former employers tried gamely to explain the CIA's relationship with someone who may be a creep of significant proportions: a Guatemalan army colonel named Julio Roberto Alpirez. Earlier this year, New Jersey Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli stunned the Clinton Administration by charging that the CIA had failed to share information with Congress and the State Department suggesting that Alpirez, once an agency informant, had been involved in two ugly, politically explosive murders in 1990 and 1992, and in fact the CIA had paid him $44,000 even after linking...
Tensions between the Old Guard and CIA Director James Woolsey, a political appointee, erupted last week when Woolsey learned that two top agency officials had on Sept. 29 given an award to a retiring field officer under investigation in the Ames case. That agent, Milton Bearden, who has retired as chief of the CIA station in Bonn, is widely respected for his work in helping Muslim rebels drive Soviet troops out of Afghanistan. But Bearden has also been reprimanded for his inattention to Ames' activities when he was the spy's boss in 1989. Woolsey had ordered that none...
...Black Bottom and The Piano Lesson) often stings with the power of a Tennessee Williams or a Eugene O'Neill. Though Wilson, unlike composer Davis, sticks to black subject matter, he too seeks to transcend racial limits in his themes. Referring to the late black painter-collagist Romare Bearden, Wilson says, "Bearden has said -- someone asked him about it -- 'I try to explore in terms of the life I know best those things that are common to all culture.' When I read that I said, 'Ah-ha, that's what art should do. This is something...
...American cultural history -- or, in a wider way, the story of American painting as a whole -- could pass up. The works haven't been shown in two decades, but they constitute the first, and arguably still the best, treatment of black-American historical experience by a black artist. (Romare Bearden's collages are slices of life, but they do not form an explicit historical narrative in the way that Lawrence's paintings...