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...cold, only to have him return years later to save the agency at its most critical hour--he would have looked a lot like Porter Goss. Reared in Connecticut, Goss prepped at Hotchkiss, studied Greek at Yale and spent the 1960s in the agency's clandestine service, overseeing covert operations in Latin America and Europe. His years as a spy left little trace on his résumé. He quit the CIA in 1971 after a mysterious case of blood poisoning nearly killed him. Goss settled down to a quiet life as a newspaper publisher on Florida's Sanibel Island...
...also wants a more compliant spy service-not such a good thing. He has hired Porter Goss to achieve both goals at the CIA. He has also issued a series of memos that begin to lay out his vision: one supports a 50% increase in the number of covert operatives-an excellent idea. Another seems to support the transfer of operational control over the use of covert force from the CIA to the Pentagon. That may not be a bad idea, either, but it feeds a fear among some intelligence professionals that with the CIA in tatters, power may shift...
WHAT WE KNOW NOW Iraq was indeed planning on developing long-range ballistic missiles that could travel 600 miles or more, but none of the designs were even close to being produced. At the same time, the Duelfer report states that Iraq did not possess any covert arsenal of Scud-variant missiles...
...forced it to land in Turkey to draw attention to Chechnya's incipient independence struggle. Basayev released all the passengers unharmed, and the Turks allowed him to return to Chechnya. The Russians were strangely forgiving, too. Instead of arresting him, they gave him military training with an élite covert unit and the next year sent him to Abkhazia, a region of Georgia on the Black Sea, where he fought with a Moscow-backed secessionist movement. But when open war between Russia and Chechnya flared in 1994, Basayev quickly emerged as one of the breakaway republic's top rebel commanders...
...Under the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, it is a crime for someone with authorized access to classified information to knowingly disclose the identity of a covert agent. Shortly after the investigation started, Bush ordered everyone in the administration to provide "full cooperation" with the investigation, and Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said the disclosure of Plame's name could be worse than Watergate "in terms of the real-world implications of it." But nobody has come forward to admit to being a source for Novak's column. Besides Rove, a number of other White House aides, including counsel...