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From: Prudence L. Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> << WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA may well see one of its biggest blunders
> turn into a budget boost. Lawmakers are blaming the mistaken bombing of
> the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade on an intelligence apparatus stretched
> thin. >>
>
> Yes, having to use those old maps must be what did it. I don't know.
> Does cash offset sheer stupidity? Prudy
So the CIA didn't have a Michelin guide to Beograd around. It happens.
And they didn't have any "assets on the ground" (ie spies) to walk up
to the building ahead of time to make sure it *was* an arms depot. It
happens. Did the CIA blow its budget on LSD experiments instead of maps
and spies and other mundane stuff? Bother... But in the long run, it
really doesn't matter. China can't do anything effective in retaliation,
just add this incident to a long list of grievances against the outside
world - "Those Westerners are always picking on us, it isn't fair!!"
Ric "you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but
you can't wipe your relatives off under the furniture" Carter
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