CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry

[Heibges]

But it's really surprising the stuff the CIA does release.

I think the stuff they really want to keep secret they do outside the agency with contract personel.

[P_Funk]

Originally Posted by Heibges

But it's really surprising the stuff the CIA does release.

Yea really. I mean if thats the stuff they want us to think they're doing then you gotta wonder the stuff they are dying to keep under wraps.

[Heibges]

You can even see very funny footage of Dick Helms testifying before Congress about the plot to kill Castro.

They ask him all these questions, about all these outlandish plots, and he finally gets angry and says that he doesn't know why they came up with all these crazy schemes, and finally laughingly says in retrospect they would have been smarter to have just found someone to walk up to Castro and shoot him with a pistol.

[August]

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Originally Posted by Heibges

I mean if thats the stuff they want us to think they're doing then you gotta wonder the stuff they are dying to keep under wraps.

Or more importantly why.

[Heibges]

I think in intelligence you have to be slightly paranoid and highly compartmentalized. Because if the enemy figures out Point A, it might not take them long to deduce Point B, and from there figure out Point C. A successful intelligence operation has to operate like the "cells" used by terrorist groups. One cell should not be able to compromise another.

Otherwise you are liable to have a Robert Hansen or an Aldridge Ames come in and destroy your entire intelligence organization.

What really bothers me about the Valeria Plame thing is that everyone she ever came in contact with abroad now has a target on their heads for the possibility of being a US spy.

[August]

I just watched The Good Shepard tonight. FWIW I hope there is a "Mother" or two on our side.

[Heibges]

I have it on my Neflix, but haven't watched it yet.

Think about this. Osama Bin Laden is on dialysis. I find it highly unlikely that if he is still alive, that he has been living in a cave this whole time.

What do you think the odds are that he has been living comfortably in Saudi Arabia the whole time? I would imagine that if he was living in Mecca he would be pretty hard to locate, and it would be impossible to assassinate him there without risking a major dust-up?

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Heibges

living comfortably in Saudi Arabia the whole time? I would imagine that if he was living in Mecca he would be pretty hard to locate, and it would be impossible to assassinate him there without risking a major dust-up?

Waiting for a new kidney.