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When it comes to drinking on -- or off -- the job, FBI Director Louis Freeh will be merciless. While the CIA's James Woolsey was getting hammered for his agency's leniency toward superspy Aldrich Ames' flagrant drunkenness, Freeh issued a blistering Alcohol Policy memo warning agents that even off-duty misconduct caused by drinking will have "harsh consequences," up to dismissal. Even when drinking moderately at a social function, G-men and -women must arrange for a designated driver. Freeh, says one, is "J. Edgar Hoover with kids...
...Woolsey's Woes...
...congressional oversight a double entendre? CIA Director James Woolsey, called on the carpet today by the Senate Intelligence Committee about a mysterious $310 million spy complex, denied the project's cost and size were kept from Congress. At the hastily called public hearing, Woolsey said the committee has been told about the behemoth at least nine times since 1990. Among the contents of several hefty volumes of brief-ings he turned over: a May 29, 1992, paper listing costs of $309 million...
...build a $310 million complex in Virginia without telling anybody? President Clinton -- and most of Congress -- want to know. A day after Clinton declassified information on the spy agency's half-completed complex, he told CIA Director James Woolsey and Pentagon officials to figure out why Congress wasn't told about the project's scope and mammoth budget. BTW: If built, the building would house the shadowy National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees spy satellites, and would be one-fifth as big as the Pentagon...
...intelligence officers who worked with Polyakov and officials who used his information have described their relationship with this legendary figure in the secret history of the cold war. Furious that Ames in recent interviews has sought to minimize the human and national-security costs of his treachery, CIA chief Woolsey told TIME last week, "What General Polyakov did for the West didn't just help us win the cold war, it kept the cold war from becoming hot. Polyakov's role was invaluable, and it was one that he played until the end -- in his own words -- for his country...