love and struggle, Joshu@
>Kinda Old, but still worth reflection...
>
>>From rmcgehee@igc.apc.org Tue Sep 26 21:02:24 GMT 1995
>
> In an announcement at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.,
>on 12 September 1995, the Director of the CIA, John Deutch, declared
>a policy of expanding covert operations. What CIA "primarily" has in
>mind are operations against drug smuggling, the proliferation
>of weapons of mass destruction and international crime and terrorism
>- or so they say. From the tone of the pronouncement it appears that
>CIA, with Deutch a participating member of the cabinet, is pushing
>the Clinton Administration to adopt covert action as a universally
>used, foreign policy blunt instrument. Deutch, said "the U.S.
>needs to maintain, and perhaps even expand, covert action as a
>policy tool."
>
> There is speculation that Deutch is not really in control of the
>cowboys of the CIA who want to go back to the good old days. Deutch's
>appointment of the notorious manipulator of intelligence, David Cohen,
>to be the Director of Operations, is an indicator that the Old-Boys
>are still in control. Deutch's naming of Cohen also signifies the
>continuation of the nearly 50-year CIA history of using slanted
>intelligence to justify covert operations. Now if the Old Boys can
>only find a worthy "Enemy" and sound the alarms loud enough to energize
>the American people and Congress to justify the massive use
>of the Agency's covert abilities, the scenario will be complete.
>
>
>
> Addenda re David Cohen who was recently appointed to
>the crucial position of Director of Operations of the CIA.
>
> Italy, 81 In a prepared statement to the Senate Intelligence
>Committee, David Cohen records he was one of the Intelligence
>Directorate managers directly involved in the April 1985
>assessment re possible Soviet involvement in Agca's assassination
>attempt on the Pope. He was the senior Directorate manager and
>reviewer for that paper and associated research. Source: Senate
>Intelligence Committee Report "Nomination of Robert M. Gates,"
>10/91 Volume III, pages 110-116.
>
> USSR. In July 1985, the CIA's papal task force issued
>the "Cowey Report", a critical analysis of CIA's April 1985 report
>outlining Soviet involvement in the Pope's assassination. CIA
>analysts interviewed noted that calling the paper "The Case for
>Soviet Involvement" and marshalling evidence only for that side
>"stacked the deck" in favor of Soviet involvement.
>Analysts thought the report lacked qualifications, especially in
>the area of source reliability. The Cowey report noted that,
>"the paper was deliberately skewed to make a case for Soviet
>complicity look more solid than it is; they thought the authors
>had been `manipulated.'" Washington Post 10/4/91 A8
>
>Ralph McGehee
>CIABASE