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Subject: China - CIA Responsible
From: Ralph McGehee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 23 July 1999 10:24 AM EDT
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DCI Tenet Claims Responsibility
DCI Tenet told Congress yesterday that he takes "ultimate
responsibility" for the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy
in Belgrade and promised to change the Agency's procedures to ensure
that such a mistake cannot happen again. Tenet attributed the error
to poor targeting procedures, inadequate review and faulty databases.
"It was a major error," Tenet told the House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence. "I cannot minimize the significance of this." The
Yugoslav Directorate of Supply and Procurement was the first target
"unilaterally proposed and wholly assembled" by CIA. Tenet also gave
new details about a mid-level intelligence analyst who challenged
the targeting data before the airstrike. Washington Post 7/23/99 A16.
I read this article feeling a great deal of irony due to the
inability's of the CIA's analysis that have manifested themselves
over and over. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
in a recent annual report discussed the Agency's gross inability's
in analyzing political, military and economic information --
what else is there?
A recent Admiral Jeremiah report followed up and concluded the
CIA needed to be scrubbed from the top to bottom. See
http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/jeremiah.html
A departing (conservative) case officer recorded the devastating
intellectual inability's of the leadership of the CIA's Directorate
of Operations. http://www3.theatlantic.com/issues/98feb/cia.htm.
A number of high-level analysts left the CIA and wrote of its
terrible intelligence. For example see: "Lost Promise: How CIA
Analysis Misserves the Nation," by John A. Gentry --
http://www.fas.org/irp/gentry/index.html
A former top Soviet affairs analyst, Melvin Goodwin, documents
and decries the CIA analytical inability's -- see
http://www.us.net/cip/cia.htm
Yet from his first days, Tenet ignored the CIA's analytical
needs and pushed ahead with his own non-intellectual tack. He called
for increased operations and dismayingly overtly! discussed his plans
for increased covert actions against China.
Tenet has overseen and ignored this gamut of intelligence
failures. As he himself notes -- he is ultimately responsible --
he must resign. He does not have the knowledge, ability, or
motivation to bring about required reform.
Lastly I must record my own criticisms. I have documented the
CIA's refusal to report accurately on Vietnam, leading to the deaths
of millions of Vietnamese and ten of thousands of Americans and the
near collapse of our own society; and, inter alia, the officially
documented failure of the CIA's intelligence to note the decline
and collapse of the USSR.
But contributing to the intelligence failures are the inability's
of its Directorate of Operations. We have official testimony re Cuba's
DGI running the Agency's entire stable of Cuban double agents, East
Germany's STASI than ran hundreds if not thousands of CIA double
agents; and, the KGB's known double agents loyal to the USSR who duped
the CIA into reporting falsely on the Soviet Union's "super" weapons of
mass destruction. Echoing these unbelievable (in the full meaning
of that term) failures, is the CIA's dissemination of "intelligence"
from a known Chinese double agent that documented the Cox report's
conclusions and the negative impact of those on our national security.
At my web site I include a number of recommendations on how
to improve the CIA's performance -- using many examples taken from
my own experience.
Making the CIA a good intelligence service is relatively easy,
making the CIA reform, especially with the current leadership,
is impossible.
Ralph McGehee
http://come.to/CIABASE
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