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...chief bodyguard, Larry Cockell, the special agent in charge of the presidential-protection division, took himself off the job last week after Chief Justice William Rehnquist ruled that Ken Starr could interrogate Cockell about what he has seen and heard at Clinton's side. Cockell could lose the SAIC job forever because putting him back on after all the publicity over his subpoena could be too disruptive to his sensitive assignment...
Agents who have been in Cockell's shoes say establishing trust is essential to ensuring the President's safety. For that reason, only the finest agents have a chance to become the SAIC. Cockell is the 24th agent (and the first African American) to hold the post in the protection division's 96-year history. The service's 2,100 plainclothes agents are recruited mostly from the military and law-enforcement departments. All of them have college degrees. Lewis Merletti, the current Secret Service director and a former SAIC, joined the service after a stint in the Special Forces...
Last week James Pardew, the Pentagon's point man in negotiating the Dayton accord, flew to Sarajevo to urge the Bosnian government to hire MPRI or a competitor like BDM Inc. or SAIC (Science Applications International). Pardew plans to tell the Bosnians that weapons will not begin to flow into Bosnia for months, but training (assuming the Bosnians act swiftly to organize the effort) is expected to begin within a few weeks, perhaps in Croatia, U.S. officials say. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton pact, recently spoke favorably of MPRI in testimony to Congress and says...
...goes for hundreds of U.S. companies that, like SAIC, are routinely spied on by either foreign companies or foreign intelligence agencies acting on behalf of foreign interests. Once companies suspect they have been targeted, they usually have only two choices: hire a private investigator or contact local law enforcement. But a growing number of legislators and business leaders are pushing to allow American companies to call on the services of a special group of spies: the Central Intelligence Agency...
...Bottles. All the parliamen tary rows and ministerial switches, says Luethy, have precious little to do with" the governing of France, which is actually one of the world's most stable and conservative societies. The "anonymous, pro saic, tremendously persistent . . . host of official., jurists, clerks and bookkeepers [who have survived] forty kings and nearly as many revolutions and coups "d'ét" administer the enormously centralized state with all the finality of one thousand years' unbroken tradition. These "supreme luminaries who control the state itself, its legislation, its finances and its personal politics, are totally removed from...