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...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...
Administration officials whisper that Director James Woolsey's days are numbered; some are beginning to float the names of possible successors. A joint Congress-White House commission will examine what should be done with the CIA. While it is unlikely to follow New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan's not altogether facetious suggestion that the CIA be abolished, the commission might recommend slashing the agency's $3 billion budget and 20,000- person staff and giving some of its intelligence-gathering functions to the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency or State Department while turning over the running of many...
...Woolsey nonetheless insists the CIA will continue to deal with sources one of his subordinates calls "scumbags." Declared Woolsey in a press conference last week: "The worse the group, the more we are likely to want to collect intelligence from them. The very fact of human-rights violations makes ((a)) group of more interest to us . . . exactly for the same reason that it is the worst of the local organized crime groups that are of the most interest to local police...
...could almost conclude not only that no one was watching, but that no one cared." Such was the frank admission of CIA Director R. James Woolsey regarding the most damaging security lapse in the agency's history: the breach that let Aldrich Ames compromise dozens of cia operations and fatally unmask key U.S. agents behind the Iron Curtain. Nonetheless, Woolsey announced that no one would be dismissed or demoted as a result of the spectacular fiasco; 11 current and retired officials will get only reprimands. The wrist slap triggered an outburst of congressional anger, including one suggestion that...
...JAMES WOOLSEY...