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...history -- is believed to have cost the lives of at least 10 agents behind the Iron Curtain and compromised more than 100 operations. The committee blasted the agency for its inability to investigate itself and properly recognize Ames' suspicious activities. The panel also criticized Director R. James Woolsey for his mild reprimands of those responsible for the botched probe...
...Senate committee today delivered a scathing assessment of theCIA's handling of the Aldrich Ames spy scandal, saving its hardest slam forCIA Director R. James Woolsey, who reprimanded 11 senior CIA officials last month, but fired no one. TheSenate Intelligence Committeesaid Woolsey's "mild" actions were "seriously inadequate and disproportionate to the problems." It also faulted former CIA directors William Casey, William Webster and Robert Gates -- agency chiefs during Ames'nine years of spyingfor Moscow -- for their role in an intelligence debacle which led to the executions of a dozen Soviet double agents and left the U.S. spy network...
...revealed that two senior officials had decided to leave the agency rather than accept demotions ordered by Director R. James Woolsey. The two men -- John MacGaffin, the No. 2 man in the agency's clandestine branch, and Frank Anderson, the head of Near East operations -- ran afoul of Woolsey for giving an award to one of the CIA officials whom Woolsey had criticized just last month for the agency's failure to detect mole Aldrich Ames. Congressional overseers expressed concern that the incident might suggest that Woolsey faces problems of insubordination...
Tensions between the Old Guard and CIA Director James Woolsey, a political appointee, erupted last week when Woolsey learned that two top agency officials had on Sept. 29 given an award to a retiring field officer under investigation in the Ames case. That agent, Milton Bearden, who has retired as chief of the CIA station in Bonn, is widely respected for his work in helping Muslim rebels drive Soviet troops out of Afghanistan. But Bearden has also been reprimanded for his inattention to Ames' activities when he was the spy's boss in 1989. Woolsey had ordered that none...
Members of Congress who oversee the CIA viewed the episode as a characteristic case of arrogance within the agency's Directorate of Operations, the branch in charge of covert missions. And, said a White House official, "What we can't understand is why Woolsey keeps loyally defending an operations directorate that keeps thumbing its nose at him. He needs to clean house." Critics will gain ammunition from the fresh details contained in classified documents. Among them...