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...guards and police dogs. Instructors simulate enemy capture by breaking into dorm rooms in the middle of the night and carrying off trainees to a bare room for days of intense interrogation. It all ends with "hell week," in which students travel to a U.S. city to stage a covert-operations exercise. fbi agents are brought in to play the part of foreign security officers who try to nab the students...
...police work, for it lies within the minds of these two young people. What led them to behave so inexplicably? Why didn't they contact a confidential abortion clinic or adoption agency? In love, of age, did they consider getting married? Having gone through the ordeal of a covert birth, why didn't they leave the child at a hospital? True, young mothers, alone and terrified, have been known to abandon their newborns. But how could two secure, educated 18-year-olds convince themselves that this was the best of all alternatives? And if indeed they did crack the baby...
...foolish as they are hypocritical. Cuba poses absolutely no security threat to the U.S. and is not even sponsoring revolutions in other Third World nations. Although the U.S. would like to see Castro toppled and replaced by a more democratic, and more importantly, more capitalist government, official embargoes and covert C.I.A. sponsored sabotage haven't worked for more than 30 years. Why will these efforts be effective now? The laws that ban ordinary contact, such as visits, between Cubans and Americans serve no rational purpose...
Clearly, the Fergusons were the key agents on the ground for this covert operation. On July 17, Mary Jo Ferguson wrote a note to the National Park Service requesting a permit to hold a "wedding ceremony" on Cumberland Island. The wedding would be held at the First African Baptist Church, near the northernmost point of the island. In the weeks leading up to that date, the Fergusons discreetly arranged all the supplies and staff for the dinner and the reception. Charlie Taylor, who owns a company on the mainland that provided some of the food, says...
...Because covert operations are usually kept secret, it is unlikely that any public hearing will ever be held to determine how many CIA associates were killed in Iraq. But this much is clear: the agency's reputation has been demolished. "It may be that the CIA actually made tremendous efforts to protect its people," says Baram. "But the perception among Iraqis is that having anything to do with Americans is dangerous to your health." The rout will make the CIA's future tasks in the Middle East--and perhaps the rest of the world--harder still to achieve...