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...first class. During the speech, Hernández speculated how Kennedy—had he lived and won a second term—would have dealt with Cuba. “He might have accepted the Cuban revolution as a fact of life, since Cuba was certainly not a Soviet satellite,” Hernández said. He told The Crimson that the present generation can learn from these mistakes by recognizing the necessity of greater cooperation between the communist island and its neighbor to the north. “The academic exchange between America and Cuba today...
...national intelligence officer for strategic programs) and Douglas MacEachin (head of the agency's arms control intelligence staff), who insisted that Gates never biased intelligence. Graham Fuller, a Gates colleague at the CIA, contended that many of the analysts in SOVA were themselves guilty of liberal bias, painting the Soviet Union as too benign, to compensate for Casey's conservative views. Gates's defenders, who also included then-Sen. Warren Rudman, claimed Gates was a victim of character assassination by the left. Armed with his own set of documents, an angry Gates marched into the committee room with a detailed...
...intelligence was slanted to suit hard-line policies toward an enemy. During highly charged confirmation hearings in the fall of 1991, which were unprecedented for an agency that usually keeps its bureaucratic battles shrouded in secrecy, past and current CIA employees accused Gates of cooking the books on the Soviet threat. As then-Director William Casey's intelligence analysis chief and later deputy director in the 1980s, Gates had shaped intelligence reports to suit Casey's and Ronald Reagan's anti-Soviet agenda, agency critics charged...
...Defense Intelligence Agency under Reagan routinely inflated Soviet threat assessments to bolster the Pentagon's case for a military buildup. But a debate had been long running within the CIA's Office of Soviet Analysis (SOVA) over whether the Russian military was ahead of the U.S. Many CIA analysts were convinced Moscow was actually lagging behind. Melvin Goodman, a former division chief in SOVA, testified at Gates's hearing that "Casey seized on every opportunity to exaggerate the Soviet threat... Gates's role in this activity was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence on all of these...
...Goodman also charged that Gates personally rewrote a 1985 CIA report on the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II so it would prove Casey's belief that Moscow was behind the shooting, even though agency analysts had no conclusive evidence establishing Soviet complicity in the plot. A later internal CIA review panel report concluded that there had in fact been "serious shortcomings" in how the reports were produced and charged that "alternate explanations" that disproved a Soviet conspiracy "were not adequately examined...