Word: woolsey
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...Although Woolsey applauded last week's decision by the House to keep the annual intelligence bill formally secret, the 27-vote margin of victory was far less than last year's 95-vote edge. "In the modern world," says Kansas Democrat Dan Glickman, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, "they have to prove and justify their budget much more than in the past." Neither Glickman nor Representative Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, a senior Democrat on the intelligence panel, knows what to make of Woolsey's new, accommodating tone. "When I said those same things to him a few months...
...agency, says Woolsey, must shuck its image as a Waspish sanctuary where a traitor like Ames can go undetected for years despite his profligate ways. "As far as the culture goes, I think some substantial changes are needed," Woolsey said in his birch-paneled CIA office. He readily conceded that his work force needs more diversity. "We are running intelligence collection against a very diverse world -- a world in which there are two genders and lots of people of different kinds of backgrounds and races and cultures," he said. "The CIA will do a better...
...Woolsey responds that he is making big changes in the focus and direction of the CIA. And in fact the agency is winning high marks from policymakers for advances in economic intelligence. The CIA, for example, has provided U.S. offiCIAls with verbatim transcripts of private talks between Japanese Cabinet ministers and among Germany's central bankers...
...Director R. James Woolsey denounced CIA mole Aldrich Ames as a "malignant betrayer of his country" whose selling of secrets because he wanted a "bigger house and a Jaguar"cost U.S. agents their lives. Woolsey acknowledged, however, that the agency's "fraternity" culture of secrecy, protectiveness and loyalty helped shield Ames from being unmasked earlier...
Spymaster Woolsey struggles to change his agency's "culture...