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Posted by gorb 2010-01-11 12:32|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 NEWSWEEK - Anatomy of a Double-Cross

How a Jordanian jihadist turned CIA operativeand back again.
By Mark Hosenball, Sami Yousafzai and Adem Demir

Published Jan 9, 2010

From the magazine issue dated Jan 18, 2010

At the CIA training facility in Virginia known as "The Farm," one of the standard courses is called "High Threat Meetings." All aspiring case officers spend the three-week class learning how to arrange a get-together with potentially dangerous informants. When meeting with such agents, "security is everything," recalls one graduate. "I remember being told very forcefully, 'It doesn't matter what you might get from an informant if you wind up dead.' " There are very rigorous protocols for such meetings, says another former agent who once taught the course: all informants should be searched carefully, the rendezvous location should be staked out ahead of time, and when the mole arrives, only one or two CIA officers should be present. "The protocol is for a case officer to meet an informant one-on-one, or maybe twoalways, always, always," adds Robert Baer, a former CIA officer who spent years tracking terrorists in the Mideast. "The one thing you never do is meet an informant with a committee."

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Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-11 13:33|| 2010-01-11 13:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Fix the Agency

As in "call the vet"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-01-11 14:10|| 2010-01-11 14:10|| Front Page Top

#3 "THE FARM" IS SSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOO COLD WAR > Nowadays "the Farm" is more properly "the Farms/Collective/Combine"; whilst "the Company" should be "the Corporation/Conglomerate".

D *** NG IT, MULTI-TASKING MULTI-NATIONALS ALL ARE WE!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-11 17:59|| 2010-01-11 17:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The CIA-INTEL wants to make it absolutely positively categorically undeniably unequivocally.....@etc., FTLG-DON'T-FORCE-US-TO TELL-BILL-TO-POINT-HIS-FINGER clear to the American = Amerikan People that at Penn State we watched VALERIE PLAME, ETC, LIKE A HAWK, WID "THE EAGLE/SNAKE EYES" + "STARLITE STARBRIGHT" SCOPE, THUS OF COURSE WE DON'T KNOW WHOM WAS WORKING WITH OR NEXT TO HER!

AND D *** NG IT, DON'T YOU FERGIT WHAT WE NEVER TOLD YOU!

So there.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-11 18:06|| 2010-01-11 18:06|| Front Page Top

#5 I recall reading similar sentiments about the CIA being broken years ago here.

Posted by Jeager Panda5130 2010-01-11 20:29|| 2010-01-11 20:29|| Front Page Top

#6 It's the whole system, of which the CIA is only a part. And they haven't changed a bit.

Posted by gorb 2010-01-11 22:29|| 2010-01-11 22:29|| Front Page Top

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