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CIA is going into spy business (really)
The CIA is working to improve overseas spying through more high-risk operations and less reliance on foreign intelligence services, according to CIA Director Porter J. Goss. "The CIA credo is that the U.S. must always have the place of primacy among our interests," Mr. Goss said of CIA plans to conduct more "unilateral" spying operations. In a meeting Thursday with CIA employees, Mr. Goss was critical of the agency's Directorate of Operations, which intelligence officials say has been opposing reform efforts by Mr. Goss and his key aides. The No. 2 official in the directorate, Robert Richer, resigned in protest last week because he disagreed with Mr. Goss' operations-related reforms. Mr. Goss said the CIA is "doing better" at conducting unilateral operations and is working to place more spies around the world under different disguises than in the past. "When I say we need to be global, this is an admission that we are not in all of the places we should be," Mr. Goss said. "We don't have this luxury anymore." Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-24 |
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