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...Woolsey Spills Some Beans...
...Director R. James Woolsey made a highly unusual public disclosure when he acknowledged on NBC's Today show the existence of major espionage investigation "cases" against officials at a number of agencies resulting from evidence uncovered in the intelligence dossiers of the former Soviet Union and its once communist allies. Woolsey's loose lips infuriated congressional overseers and fbi investigators, prompting Woolsey to backtrack and say the "cases" were actually just "leads...
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a plague of press reports has warned of a black market in weapons-grade nuclear material in Russia. The Central Intelligence Agency claims that most of these stories are untrue. CIA Director R. James Woolsey went so far as to tell the Senate Intelligence Committee that his agency was "not aware of any illegal transfers in quantities sufficient to produce a nuclear weapon...
Declaring himself "absolutely determined to get to the bottom" of the Ames spy affair, CIA Director R. James Woolsey announced that a review of "systematic" security problems at the agency, including overreliance on lie detector tests, is under...
Last week Woolsey seemed to get the message. He emerged briefly from a two- hour grilling by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to announce that the Ames debacle was being treated not "as a single episode or incident but as a serious problem." Some Congressmen suspected, however, that Woolsey, like past CIA directors, might merely be angling to head off legislative interference in the agency's internal matters. Warned one Congressman: "We are headed for a confrontation...