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Another exercise examined the Environmental Protection Agency as an example of how to share management responsibilities and deal with conflicting interests. A third used the Bureau of Security and Consular...
Wichser's detention was the first such incident involving an American since the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. Government spokesmen insisted that she had confessed to stealing state secrets and pleaded for leniency. But a U.S. consular official, when he was finally allowed to see her, heard quite a different story. Wichser has lived in China for two years, teaching English at Peking's Foreign Languages Institute and researching Chinese agricultural economics to gain credit toward a doctorate from the University of Denver. The "internal documents" found in her possession, apparently concerning Chinese agriculture, were, said one source...
...will remain in the foreign service and would still be willing to go abroad--though "not to Iran and probably not to the Middle East." But she does plan one major change in her career path after 12 years as a political officer, she intends to switch to consular work. "You come back with a different view," she explains. "I'm going to see if I can't help Americans more than work with foreigners I want to help people--and it's easier to help Americans than to help foreigners...
...explains Jean-Christopher Oberg, a Swedish diplomat now at the CFIA. "If you are used to playing games then you can accept it. If you have a certain perception, conviction, and realize that colleagues are doing the very opposite, it's traumatic." Swift, he says is switching to the consular side of the foreign service because "She doesn't want to be fooled again--she doesn't want to be in a position on to get into any conflict of interest...
Some agents say consular personnel have made a million-dollar business out of the illegal sale of U.S. visas-and are getting away with it, largely because State Department higher-ups are terrified of a scandal. In rebuttal, State Department officials insist that they are investigating 40 to 50 cases of suspected visa malfeasance, though only two employees have been prosecuted in the past four years...