Word: spooks
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...Kappes back as Hayden's deputy. Officials said this was a signal to CIA employees that the White House, DNI and a military general were not planning to impose their will randomly on the CIA but aim to continue reforming the Agency with the guidance of a respected veteran spook. At his confirmation hearing in mid-May, CIA Director Hayden praised Kappes, calling him "a guy who knows the business...
...only at the last moment. Bush officials had hoped to take the weekend to quietly prepare for the surprise announcement that Air Force General Michael Hayden would replace embattled CIA Director Porter Goss, with the two appearing together at the White House early this week. But Goss, a former spook who used to run covert operations in Latin America, wanted to control the choreography. "If we're gonna do this," Goss said, "let's go ahead...
Just days after a Washington Post reporter won a Pulitzer prize for a story about secret CIA prisons, the Agency's Director, Porter Goss, Thursday fired a spook who admitted having been one of the sources for the story...
...Some analysts have read the leak of hypothetical U.S. military planning on Iran as calculated to spook the Europeans, Russia and China into supporting tougher UN action. Whether or not it has that effect, diplomacy is clearly the only game in town - and both sides are busy trying to shape its outcome to their advantage...
Long before Alias' Jennifer Garner traveled the world's nightclubs undercover and barely covered, Diana Rigg donned the catsuit of justice as superhot, supercool British spook Emma Peel. The plots seem frothy in retrospect--in one, an alien artichoke threatens mankind. But the quick-witted, flirty interplay between Mrs. Peel and bowler-hatted John Steed (Patrick Macnee) never gets old. This massive set collects all 51 Peel episodes plus three rare Avengers, a making-of film and more. Crisply written and sophisticated, it's a stylish time capsule of the mid-'60s apex of British mod-era style...