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...recent weeks over the activities of the ISI. Last week, the U.S. demanded that Pakistan investigate charges by the governments of Afghanistan and India that the ISI had been involved in the recent bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul. And the New York Times reported Wednesday that CIA deputy director Stephen R. Kappes had met with senior officials in Pakistan to confront them with evidence purporting to show that elements in the ISI has been working with the network of Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani...
...Relations between the CIA and the ISI are at their lowest," said Siddiqa, with growing mistrust leading to a collapse in intelligence sharing...
...unlike Iraq, it has had nothing to do with incompetence. This weekend the Los Angeles Times reported that the CIA has billeted officers in Pakistani military bases in the Northwest Frontier Province looking over the Pakistanis' shoulders to make sure no leads were missed. It was the right thing to do. But, other than a couple of Predator attacks on second- and third-level Qaeda targets, al-Qaeda is still thriving...
...Some in Congress who are eager to preserve SALT II point to assessments suggesting that abandoning the agreement could backfire on the U.S. According to a report prepared by the CIA for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, the Soviets would be better suited to capitalize on the scrapping of SALT II because of two basic advantages: active production lines for manufacturing ICBMs, strategic bombers and submarine-launched missiles; and the greater throw weight of Soviet missiles, which would allow them to be loaded up with many more warheads. House Armed Services Chairman Les Aspin says the Soviet production-line superiority...
...winning approval for his package, he has adopted a more low-key approach, tending to rally support behind closed doors. Yet already the public charges, by both friends and foes of the anti-Sandinista rebels, are beginning to fly. Instead of speechmaking about Marxists marching across the Texas border, CIA Director William Casey told members of Congress last week of U.S. intelligence reports revealing that a Soviet An-30 reconnaissance plane had recently flown at least four missions over Nicaragua. The Administration speculated that the aircraft might have been used to help the Sandinistas gain information on contra operations. White...