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Subject: Bombing Error Explained
From: Ralph McGehee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, May 13, 1999 3:20 AM
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China Embassy Bombing Error Explained
Thinking they were picking a Yugoslav arms agency for attack,
intel analysts not only relied on outdated maps but also misread
them and, in a series of blunders, ended up mistakenly supplying
the coordinates of the Chinese embassy that was hit by American
bombs. Senior intel officials, said mistake began with "educated
guesses" by the CIA about the location of the target. The error
was compounded when the mis-identification went undetected because
government maps and electronic databases showed the Chinese Embassy
in another part of Belgrade, miles from the address it moved to
in 1996.
To guard against similar failures, Defense Secretary Cohen announced
a tightening of procedures for updating U.S. defense maps and intel
records to account for changes in the location of foreign embassies
and other facilities of critical interest in a military op. Among the
new measures, will be a requirement to cross-check the location of
proposed targets with analysts who have firsthand knowledge of the sites.
[Comment: What a drastic innovation -- check targets with those
that know.]
Cohen also said intel agencies will take unspecified measures to
"strengthen the internal mechanisms and the procedures for developing
target information," including "new procedures for updating maps."
Washington Post 5/11/99 A17.
Further comment: What is needed is a reform of the procedures and
personnel of CIA -- its intelligence has failed for most of its 50
plus years -- so do not count on any significant or determinant
changes. The CIA is and always will be a covert action agency that
uses its intelligence to support policy. Its intelligence in cases
relating to policy merely provides cover for, and propagandizes its
operations. Unfortunately the CIA also thinks it is an intelligence
agency. The leadership of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence -- some who are ex-CIA operations officers -- revealed
the CIA must continue to have strong paramilitary and increased media
[disinformation] capabilities. Getting accurate intelligence
from this organization is like getting blood from a turnip.
Ralph McGehee
http://come.to/CIABASE
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