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I invite you to identify the absurdity. Wait, let me help: Through a mutual contact, [former CIA operative Duane R. “Dewey”] Clarridge declined to comment for this post. But his case is fascinating. Like a lot of ex-CIA operatives, he considers his former agency a hidebound, bureaucratic mess that strikes Faustian bargains with untrustworthy proxies […]
This is the third installment of a seven part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. World of Nations, William Keylor The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer Charles Duelfer worked for UNSCOM, the agency that investigated Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions mandating the elimination of chemical and biological stockpiles during […]

The Law Enforcement Model

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On April 30, 2009

This is a kind of interesting clip about the British approach to fighting terrorism. We recently had a speaker at Patterson knowledgeable of British intelligence organizations, and he made more or les

The Role of the CIA

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On April 17, 2009
Spencer has some thoughts: And here’s how it’s problematic for Obama, Blair and Panetta to indicate to the CIA that they’ll stand by CIA officers who relied on OLC guidance for the torture. Marc Ambinder observes that there’s some wiggle room in that promise, although every indication from the administration is that it doesn’t want […]

Spy Games

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On March 29, 2009

This (the claim that the CIA’s top spy in Russia in the 1980s was a double) is interesting, but I guess I don’t understand why, if Tolkachev were really working for the KGB, he was execute

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