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...Dennis DeConcini is, after all, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a frequent host to high-level visitors from the agency. What was unusual was the cast of characters they were there to protect. When DeConcini's heavy wooden office door opened, out stepped CIA Director R. James Woolsey -- accompanied by none other than Yevgeni Primakov, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, successor organization to the KGB. Picking up their guards, the chiefs of the world's two largest intelligence agencies, once mortal enemies, bustled down the corridor to another meeting...
...facing a sophisticated Hydra of suppliers," warns CIA Director James Woolsey. More than 25 countries have or may be developing weapons of mass destruction. More than two dozen conduct research in chemical weapons or already stockpile them. More than a dozen have ballistic missiles that could one day loft nuclear warheads far beyond their borders...
...member of the nuclear club but also one of the world's leading proliferators of weapons of mass destruction. The Chinese have been selling ballistic missiles and nuclear equipment to all comers in the Third World. Its missile technology has gone to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran. CIA Director Woolsey has told Congress that China is getting new missile technology from Russia and Ukraine. This is ominous, he said, not only because the transfers improve China's military capabilities, but also because China could pass this more advanced technology to other states. So far, the U.S. has been unable...
...begins with a top level conference with CIA Director James Woolsey. And then it's "constant meetings ever since," he says. The heavy reading comes later, when most of his colleagues have gone home...
With the end of the cold war, the CIA has become more willing to consider sharing its business intelligence with private companies. At his confirmation hearing two weeks ago, the agency's new director, R. James Woolsey, told Senators that the issue "is the hottest current topic in intelligence policy." He is considering a controversial plan -- opposed by many civil libertarians and some of the agency's former directors -- to offer the CIA's intelligence to U.S. corporations. If the plan is approved, the CIA would pass on foreign trade secrets to U.S. firms as well as ferret out foreign...