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...Director John Deutch told the Senate Intelligence Committee that 10 agency officials would be dismissed, demoted or reprimanded for having mishandled information regarding killings and human rights abuses in Guatemala in the early 1990s...
...Specter said it "leaves a lot to be desired" and accused the agency of a "deliberate withholding of information" on Alpirez. House Intelligence Committee member Bill Richardson called the report "not terribly visionary in what needs to be done to improve the CIA's internal procedures." CIA director John Deutch tried to remedy that by announcing a series of reforms, including promises to choose CIA station chiefs more carefully, to "scrub" paid informants more thoroughly and report accurately on human-rights abuses by the unclean, and to require better briefing of U.S. ambassadors. Deutch's efforts only partly mollified agency...
Still, there are presumably some governments where there are few "good guys" with whom to make common cause. And there are some CIA station heads who have grown too comfortable with guys who aren't good. Deutch will need to work hard to achieve real change in the way his subordinates do business, and just as hard to conquer the cynicism engendered by similar pledges in the past. Congressional sources grumble that the Guatemala report's conclusions were the same as every other post-screw-up assessment: an assurance that no laws were broken and a promise to tell more...
...handed sense of humor. The U.S. intelligence agency released four dozen intercepted messages from the pre-Cold War days during the mid-1940's, when the Soviets were scrambling to develop their own atom bomb. "Much to my astonishment, one finds evidence of KGB humor," said CIA Director John Deutch. "Washington is referred to as Carthage, San Francisco is Babylon and New York is referred to as Tyre -- all ancient cities that came to ruin." Reasonable people may differ as to whether this is evidence of the KGB's sense of humor or the CIA's lack...
...John Deutch, who took the helm of the CIA last month, is eager to put the sex-discrimination issue behind him. Improving the lot of women at the agency "is a big deal for me," Deutch told reporters after he took his post. "I will be pushing that very hard." Deutch has appointed former Navy Assistant Secretary Nora Slatkin to the No. 3 position in the agency; she vows to make "the glass ceiling a glass floor." Deutch's arrival is being greeted with cautious optimism by the women DO officers suing the agency. Deutch is saying all the right...