Word: woolsey
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...director of the CIA, R. James Woolsey must deal with a daunting array of sworn enemies: Russian spies, Libyan operatives, North Korean agents, Dennis DeConcini . . . Wait, Dennis DeConcini, the Democratic Senator from Arizona? Listen to what he says and judge for yourself. "We have had a very obstinate director of the CIA who has hurt the agency," says DeConcini, who is the chairman of the Senate's Intelligence Committee. "He is not doing the Administration any good whatsoever and to me is a disaster...
After 18 months in the job, Woolsey increasingly finds himself fighting a surprising new band of domestic foes: lawmakers and other espionage experts who feel that the nation's spymaster has yet to prove he can retool U.S. intelligence for the post-cold war world. Woolsey is coming under growing attack for being too reluctant to cut his share of America's $28 billion annual intelligence budget and too slow to bring diversity to the spy ranks. The spotlight on the agency increased last week after TIME reported that more than 100 of the CIA's female case officers have...
...interview with TIME last week, Woolsey vowed to shrink intelligence spending "prudently," but complained that Congress has doubled the Administration's proposed cuts, from $7 billion to $14 billion, through 1997. During the 1990s, the cuts will slice 1 of every 4 positions from the U.S. intelligence payroll. "The intelligence community and the CIA will be -- by the end of the decade -- down to about the size it was in the Carter Administration," Woolsey says. The man who ran the agency back then, however, doesn't see that as a problem. "I don't think we were shorthanded...
...members of Congress feel that Woolsey is reluctant to embrace a changed world. DeConcini is angry at Woolsey for refusing, with White House backing, to accept the Senator's legislation giving the FBI earlier access to possible security leaks. The measure comes in response to the case of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, in which the agency for two years neglected to inform the FBI of its suspicions after Ames gave deceptive answers in a 1991 polygraph exam. Ames, a 31-year CIA veteran, was sentenced last April to life in prison for pocketing up to $2 million from Moscow...
...Lunch with CIA Director R. James Woolsey. Bonus: a Tom Clancy novel autographed by Woolsey...