Word: hitz
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...would like to know. Agency communications records and documents state that Fowler telephoned a mid-level CIA officer who was Tamraz's contact in the clandestine Operations Directorate in December 1995, though Fowler denies making any calls. Meanwhile, intelligence officials told TIME that CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz is investigating whether the officer, at Tamraz's urging, telephoned Fowler in October to confirm that the businessman had helped the agency in the past with information on the Middle East. If that was the case, it would represent a major breach in CIA security regulations, which bar officers from revealing...
...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...
...first of these, a review by CIA inspector general Frederick Hitz--later confirmed in broad outline by the President's Intelligence Oversight Board--arrived on selected Washington desks early last week. It is a document offering many pages (700 plus) but little closure. Agency officials summarizing it have asserted that their organization broke no laws in connection with Alpirez. The CIA did pay him, Hitz found, but it never possessed (let alone covered up) sufficient evidence to establish him as a party to either killing. This is not, however, because no such evidence existed; top CIA sources hurry to concede...
...internal CIA probe has concluded that the agency engaged ina cover-up over the deaths of an American and a rebel commander in Guatemala, according to reports in The New York Times and by the Associated Press. An investigation by Frederick P. Hitz, the CIA's inspector general blames the agency for not sharing important information about the killing of American innkeeper Michael DeVine in June 1990 and the March 1992 disappearance of Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, the husband of American lawyer Jennifer Harbury, with U.S. administration officials and Congress. President Clinton ordered the internal investigation in March 30 after allegations...
...Secrecy corrupts," Hitz said. "And absolute secrecy corrupts absolutely...