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...faith in the spooks from Langley to get rid of an unsavory leader, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. As NATO warplanes roared over Serbia this spring, Bill Clinton signed a secret presidential "finding" giving the CIA the green light to try to topple Milosevic's regime. The agency's covert operation, sources tell TIME, is part of a wide-ranging plan Clinton has approved to oust the Serbian strongman. On the record, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says, "We are making it quite clear that we don't see Milosevic in the future...
...covert action plan has its exotic aspects. Agency computer hackers will try to disrupt Milosevic's private financial transactions and electronically drain his overseas bank accounts. (Intelligence officials suspect he has money socked away in Switzerland, Cyprus, Greece, Russia and China.) The CIA also hopes to funnel cash secretly to opposition groups inside Yugoslavia as well as recruit dissidents within the Belgrade government and the Yugoslav military. Last month roads in four Serbian towns and villages were blocked by young reservists protesting the army's failure to pay them for two months...
Despite the United States' repeated public assertions ? and a covert CIA operation to back them up ? that Slobodan Milosevic must be removed from power as soon as possible, apparently when isn?t as important as how. Responding to reports that Belgrade opposition leaders are considering options for finding Milosevic political asylum in, say, Iraq or Belarus, Pentagon chief William Cohen sounded like he had never heard of realpolitik. "He is an indicted war criminal," Cohen said in Denmark Friday. "If there is any place where he seeks sanctuary, perhaps I would recommend the Hague." To TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
...capable bureaucrat, and someone who in recent months has quietly become a presidential favorite. As head of the Federal Security Service, the successor to the kgb, he was a hawk during the war in Chechnya. And he remains deeply unpopular among Russian officers for the way he sent a covert force into Chechnya at the start of the war and disowned the troops when they were captured. His most recent jobs--first as Interior Minister, then as Deputy Prime Minister--have clearly labeled him as one of the few men Yeltsin trusts with power...
...field agents in Albuquerque zeroed in on Lee's office computer and proposed a covert search of his hard drive. But because of laws against searches and seizures in the workplace, government officials can't rifle employees' computers or desks unless the workspace has been specifically marked with banners warning of possible searches. The computers at Los Alamos weren't tagged, so to execute a search, the agents had to apply for a formal warrant through the Justice Department...