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...work can take its toll on the case officer as well. NOC officers cannot count on just being expelled from countries like officers with diplomatic immunity. Their post-cold war enemies don't trade captured spies as the KGB would. NOC officers in Colombia who have set up import-export companies as covers--bribing drug couriers on the side for intelligence--have been wounded or killed in gunfights with traffickers. A NOC officer serving in Africa was beaten up and jailed for a month. Another, grabbed by a Hizballah faction in Beirut, managed to talk his way out by convincing...
...agency's challenge in the post-cold war era is to reinvent its role by fighting such new threats as terrorism, nuclear proliferation and organized crime. So far, the agency has scored some successes. Before the Persian Gulf War, intelligence provided by CIA spies prevented some 120 terrorists from launching attacks, say agency officials. Signal intercepts, along with CIA informants in China, have alerted U.S. officials to chemical weapons-related shipments the Beijing government has tried to make to Iran. The agency has also succeeded in placing agents in the Cali drug cartel...
Allegiances between the U.S. and other nations are far less binding in the post-Cold War era. Because the globe is far less polarized, we may have far less control over the nations that purchase our weapons. The tanks and planes we sell today may be used against us in the future. Of course, a resultant war would benefit the military-industrial complex...
...contender for CIA director: John Deutch, deputy defense secretary and the second-in-command at the Pentagon. Deutch "would probably be confirmed easily and has expressed interest in the job," says TIME Washington correspondent Doug Waller. The biggest challenge for the successor remains adapting the agency to a post-Cold War world, Waller adds...
...Serb assault on Bihac was the culmination of more than two years of ineffectual wrangling among Washington, its European partners and the U.N. over how the horrible ethnic conflict could be stopped. Now, as the fighting worsens again, none of the peacemaking institutions so grandly charged with keeping the post-cold war world order has the vision or unity to impose a policy...