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Producer/Director of Real Class of '96 and '98; Covert Artist of Unofficial Guide 1994-95; Boston Marathon; HSA Graphic Design Agency Manager: Crimson Key Society...
...same reason it avoids assassination of foreign leaders: the U.S. is uniquely vulnerable on both counts. The Bush Administration at one point considered disrupting Iraqi computers that controlled government financial transactions, but the CIA opposed the action. "Every time screwing around with financial systems has been discussed as a covert action, people have walked away from it," says a former senior CIA official. "Messing with a country's money represents a fundamental attack. No CIA director has ever recommended...
...women counter that such concerns are exaggerated -- and some of their male colleagues agree. "Women worked very well in Latin America," says "Mike," a covert paramilitary specialist. "In a lot of cases their informants are looking to unload on someone. They've got a story to tell, and they actually feel more comfortable telling a woman. They're macho, but they're also paternalistic, thinking 'maybe I can help her,' or 'I'm going to impress her, and how much more can I get for her.' That works to a woman's advantage...
...wrote, "Conservatism' in America's politics means 'Let's keep the niggers in their place." Unfortunately, this assessment is as true now as it was 30 years ago. While the overtly racist tenets of conservatism have largely been forced out of political discourse, they have frequently been replaced by covert race-baiting and what Senator Patrick Moynihan (DNY) has termed "benign neglect." And overt racism is beginning to gain more and more legitimacy, as neoconservatism encourages "angry white men" to search for scapegoats...
President Clinton's designated CIA Director, John Deutch, vowed to replace top officials in the agency's troubled covert-operations division and reform what he termed its cold war mentality. Some agents, he said, were not "in tune with the current requirements" of intelligence work...