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...about Gaddafi's political transformation is how he achieved it with the help of two institutions that fed his greatest paranoia about the West: Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Gaddafi personally met with top British and American spooks, including the then CIA covert operations deputy chief Stephen Kappes, who is now the leading candidate to become CIA Deputy Director under incoming head Michael Hayden. The Libyan leader became on a first-name basis with them and his officials took them out to Tripoli's faded restaurants...
...been expanding an empire that already absorbs about 80% of the U.S. intelligence budget. In that view, the CIA needs to remain an independent counterweight to the Pentagon, another set of eyes, ears and instincts, not become a subsidiary of it. But Hayden has hardly been acting like a covert Rumsfeld agent. In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in August 2004, he strongly supported the plan to create the DNI role, over Rumsfeld's objections, and he even proposed--to no avail--that the NSA be moved out of the Pentagon and into the DNI portfolio...
...standing on the Hill, could help Hayden rebuild morale at an agency that has suffered from public failures and private infighting. Many officers in Langley, Va., were ecstatic over the news that the unpopular Goss was leaving and that Hayden hopes to make Stephen Kappes--a respected veteran of covert operations who quit on Goss-- his deputy...
...responsibility is to be very candid with the workforce, let them know that there will be some changes. The CIA is part of a larger intelligence community, and it needs to be prepared for the change. Its strongest capability is in its human-intelligence side, in its collections, covert collections and operations, and covert action. But it also needs to take a look at the other capabilities that the agency has, like its analytic responsibilities and whether those should, in fact, be allocated to other places within the community. Hayden and Kappes need to take a look...
...Covert operations rarely come off exactly as planned. But last week's coup at the CIA, orchestrated by White House officials and Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, went only slightly awry--and only at the last moment. Bush officials had hoped to take the weekend to quietly prepare for the surprise announcement that Air Force General Michael Hayden would replace embattled CIA Director Porter Goss, with the two appearing together at the White House early this week. But Goss, a former spook who used to run covert operations in Latin America, wanted to control the choreography...