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Keeping Secrets RE "The CIA Has Secrets. Hello?" [July 27]: As an Army intelligence officer during the Korean War, I interrogated a lieutenant colonel who had defected from North Korea's supreme headquarters. My superiors agreed that in exchange for an extensive report, he would not be turned over to the South Koreans but would be allowed to continue his education in electrical engineering in the U.S. After a two-week interrogation, I was directed to turn him over to the CIA, who would then follow through with the agreement. A short time later, I heard that the CIA thought...
...brave astronauts who immeasurably boosted America's status during the Cold War undertook their daring adventures with full knowledge of the mortal dangers involved. But even more than their achievements, the true measure of their greatness is the humility they have shown - in a world where very ordinary men cannot stop bragging about trivial triumphs. Ajit Parihar, Ludhiana, India...
...please stop the Sri Lanka bashing and turn to supporting a nation with a mosaic of cultures that was sadly beset with over a quarter-century of separatist war. Journalists often ignored the atrocities committed by the Tamil Tigers - a group that assassinated two heads of state. Your article should have clearly congratulated Rajapaksa for having the strength of character to stand up to the protests of the international community and rid his land of the scourge of terror. Chandri Gunawardhana, Singapore...
FOUND The remains of U.S. Navy Captain Michael Scott Speicher, the first combat casualty of Operation Desert Storm, were discovered in Iraq 18 years after his plane was shot down the first night of the Gulf War...
...think the most satisfying moments were when I saw lives saved--children suffering from cancer, for example, treated through radiotherapy machines provided by the agency. The most dissatisfying moment of my life, of course, was when the Iraq war was launched. That hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives on the basis of fiction, not facts, makes me shudder...