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This intelligence trove was provided by General Dmitri Polyakov, a barrel- chested weekend carpenter and collector of fine shotguns who served as a top officer of the Soviet military intelligence agency, the GRU. Polyakov began working for U.S. intelligence in 1961, and during the succeeding decades % he passed increasingly precious...
Even so, some top officials could be made to squirm, beginning with Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Bentsen. Jean Hanson, general counsel of the Treasury, has reportedly told investigators that she briefed Bentsen about 1993 meetings between lower Treasury officials and White House aides concerning a Whitewater-related investigation before...
Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, to whom Hanson's memo was addressed, could land in more trouble too. He has admitted that he gave White House officials a "heads up" briefing on the RTC probe in February, but at first did not acknowledge knowing of any earlier meetings. Even before...
So who will prevail? The gloomiest scenario is also the most controversial. The 1991 assessment designed by retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Robert Gaskin predicts the all-important U.S. air campaign would never get off the ground. Instead, he forecasts that when squadrons of American and South Korean F-16s...
As soon as the briefing book from Feinstein arrived at his Rayburn Building office, Hyde pushed aside the chaos on his desk, settled into reading the thick document with its seven sections and quickly came to the one made up solely of murders in Chicago, whose suburbs Hyde represents. There...