Word: cline
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeff Cline...
...Cline, Director of Studies
...Cline was CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence...
Holding Back. This increasingly public aspect of traditionally secret operations has changed U.S. relations with both friends and adversaries. There is evidence of increasing reluctance on the part of allies to share secrets with the CIA. Says Ray Cline, the agency's former deputy director for intelligence and now a director of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "In the old days, people in allied outfits competed with each other to have a close relationship with the CIA because it cast credit on them with their bosses. But now a close relationship can be more...
...shielding devices around the targets. The Times report infuriated U.S. intelligence officials-"mischievous" was about the kindest description of it. One baffled Soviet diplomat shook his head over a Bloody Mary in Washington and commented that the relationship between the American press and the American Government was "anarchy." Jokes Cline: "The only unrestricted intelligence organization in this country is the American press...