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...spying for the Russians from 1985 to 1994. Not only did Ames send 10 of the CIA's most prized Soviet agents to their death, but his secrets also helped Moscow plant a network of at least a half-dozen double agents, who began slipping both real and bogus information to their CIA handlers. But even after CIA officials discovered the ruse in 1991, they continued to send the White House and Pentagon top-secret reports based on what the doubles were telling them--and never bothered to warn in the reports that the information was suspect. CIA Director John...
Deutch well knows the impact of bad information. In 1993, in his previous job as Under Secretary of Defense, he himself received bogus Russian military secrets, Pentagon sources told Time. By then the CIA had finally begun to attach caveats to the reports that contained information from the double agents, but the labels were sometimes omitted or ignored by the customer. One such report on Russian antiaircraft capabilities, which made its way to the Pentagon in 1993, clearly warned that the CIA was suspicious about the veracity of its source. But Air Force officials, who considered the report valuable...
...blunt in his criticism of some current trends in pop music. Punk rock, for instance, is "not what it was in 1977," he asserts, "and anybody who is old enough to remember knows the difference. It's being heralded as a new movement, and we all know it's bogus." On rock stars who moan about the high cost of fame: "They're total hypocrites. No one's putting a gun to your head to do videos, to do tours, to do interviews...
...given the fact that we had vacated the classroom by the official 2:07 p.m. beginning of lecture. One wonders what perverse sense of journalistic (ir)responsibility leads The Crimson to fantasize about our exhibitionism and egotism instead of providing serious expose coverage of a senior faculty member's bogus politics. The only serious coverage provided was false; none of us have faced any disciplinary actions whatsoever, and we told this to The Crimson when it called us for an interview...
...addition to promising to cash a fake check, the suspects may also produce a bogus money-roll--a wad of paper with a few real bills wrapped around the outside...