-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K ---- <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:563036">CIA - Selling Intelligence</A> ----- Subject: CIA - Selling Intelligence From: Ralph McGehee <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> Date: Thu, 21 October 1999 09:30 AM EDT Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A353272E527F33100A5EE549 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------A353272E527F33100A5EE549 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="loeb.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="loeb.txt" Selling Intelligence Tenet's address at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service showed why he has become the CIA's super salesman. He talked about the CIA infiltrating terrorist groups, rescuing pilots and thwarting bombings. He offered a rationale for spending billions on spies: "In my view, the intelligence community's calling is to help policymakers identify opportunities to advance peace and democracy in the world." Tenet relentlessly talks up the troops--troops whose morale, especially in operations, had hit rock bottom by July 1997 when he took over. "At the end of the day, the men and women of U.S. intelligence--not... high-speed computers--are our most precious asset." Vernon Loeb Washington Post 10/21/99 A21. McGehee commentary: My fondest wish is to believe such talk, but after a 25-year career in the CIA and nearly that many years conducting research since retiring -- I have come to a different appreciation of the Agency and is operations. First, Tenet talked exclusively about intelligence while deflecting any substantive discussion of covert operations -- when operations are the raison d'etre of the CIA. The CIA spends one percent of its budget for all-source intelligence--indicating the emphasis in reverse of this aspect. Secondly, Tenet decries high-speed computers; e.g. Internet. The CIA may be the last institution on earth to avail itself of this invaluable resource (Encyclopedia Britannica is now online). CIA cannot, of course, freely use such information, as its intelligence collection and analysis only support its policy, not truths. The CIA is an hermetically-sealed society that must remain such if it is to support its policies, unchallenged by facts. I discovered this when it fought any reality about Vietnam, using both false intelligence and domestic propaganda. Subsequent research proves this is its overall purpose. Give the policymakers--in and outside the CIA--what they want to hear, your budgets increase and your fantasies transform reality. If its unreality results in the destruction of people, democracies or other unwanted types of government, who cares? To ensure that it is not inconvenienced by reality, it recruits persons with rigid personalities and other anti-intelligence characteristics. The poorly qualified recruits go about collecting desired intelligence from like-minded foreign assets and the spinning "intelligence cycle" deflects all truths. One of the universal criticisms of the CIA's procedures has been the emphasis on recruitment's of spies resulting in fraudulent claims, the promotion of those willing to play the recruitment game; and, bad or contrived intelligence. Yet Tenet begins each morning's staff meeting by asking, "who did we recruit and what difference will it make" If the CIA is to become an Intelligence Agency it must concentrate on analysis. You cannot fight terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and its other priorities by talking proud while whistling Dixie. I realize, of course, that my message will anger or be ignored by intelligence mavens, but it is my duty as a citizen to make my observations public. Ralph McGehee <A HREF="http://come.to/CIABASE">http://come.to/CIABASE</A> --------------A353272E527F33100A5EE549-- ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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