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During his thirty one years working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),Kane has lived in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Senegal, Algeria, and most-recently Portugal, his only non-Muslim post. After returning to private life in Portugal, Kane acted as a security adviser to the Portugese government, which resulted in a knighthood of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator...
...Kane, who applied for a Fulbright scholarship to Turkey--the "furthest place I could apply to,"--was tapped for a job with the CIA by a senior professor, one of the agency's many consultants on Harvard's campus. In 1951, about 5 percent of the graduating class was recruited for employment with...
...IRAQ Rejects U.N. Plan Baghdad threatened to halt oil supplies to Jordan and Turkey if they agreed to a U.N. plan to replace sanctions on Iraq with tighter border controls. A British-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution to be debated this week proposes the end of all sanctions on exports to Iraq with the exception of weapons-related materials. Under the so-called "smart" sanctions plan, Iraq's illicit oil exports to its neighbors would be brought into a U.N.-controlled oil-for-food account. The move to ease sanctions on civilian goods was partly in response to pressure from...
...indication that Washington may be onto a good thing with its "smart sanctions" proposal against Iraq is the fact that it's got Baghdad rattling its saber. Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz on Wednesday warned Jordan and Turkey that they'd lose access to cheap oil from Baghdad if they go along with Washington's proposals, many of which are contained in a U.N. Security Council resolution that Britain plans to introduce next week...
...current setup also encourages most of the international community to look the other way as Iraq violates sanctions, particularly through exporting oil to Syria and Turkey (who pay Baghdad directly rather than through a U.N.-managed escrow account). The new proposals would require these countries and Jordan to pay for oil through the escrow account, giving the U.N. tighter control over Baghdad's funds. But a decade of sanctions has spawned an elaborate smuggling economy in the states surrounding Iraq, and implementing new curbs may be difficult...