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...that may have jeopardized the U.S. national security interests," the committee's report concludes, by failing to alert government officials and policymakers that some agency information was actually being provided by the KGB. Senators Arlen Specter and Bob Kerrey, who led the Senate inquiry, also faulted CIA Director John Deutch for understating impact of tainted information and have requested a comprehensive review of all CIA sources for the past 10 years. But TIME's Doug Waller says a major CIA shakedown this isn't. "At most, this represents a spanking for an old sin," he says. "Moreover, the allegation that...
...scandal has inspired a lot of finger pointing. Deutch reprimanded seven agency officers, six of whom had already retired. Frederick Hitz, the CIA inspector general, recommended that the last three agency directors (William Webster, Robert Gates and R. James Woolsey) "be held accountable." The three ex-directors sent an angry letter to Deutch insisting that they had never been told by subordinates that the sensitive intelligence was tainted...
...latest scandal has sent morale at the agency to rock bottom. Disgusted with incompetence by higher-ups, many younger spies are resigning. Senior hands complain that Deutch pays too much attention to how operations will play on Capitol Hill. Gregarious and backslapping, Deutch can also be a ruthlessly tough manager and highly status conscious. He recently angered seven Senators planning a fact-finding trip to Bosnia by refusing to let them use a plane he had reserved from the Pentagon for a later trip, even though the Pentagon was able to find him an identical substitute. When one of Washington...
...Congress is still confident that Deutch can reform the agency. In his first six months as director, he has replaced practically every top manager. And when he met last week with officers in the CIA's soundproof auditorium to explain his reprimands in the latest scandal and to buck up morale, he got a standing ovation. It was a small step in rebuilding confidence inside the agency. The larger task will be restoring the CIA's credibility with those on the outside...
...made a shocking confession to two congressional committees: in the last years of the cold war, it knowingly passed on questionable information to the President and the Pentagon. The agency's new director, John Deutch, told stunned legislators that CIA officers had on occasion obtained and relayed information from Kremlin insiders whom the agency suspected of being double agents. The CIA did not properly warn U.S. national security officials that the information might be tainted; worse, the information may have prompted the expenditure of billions on unnecessary defense projects. "Devastating" and "inexcusable" were Deutch's assessments. He pledged an intensive...