WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Straight from inside the CIA comes the rationale for keeping our POWs from being known and why we cannot get a handle on how many covert operators were lost in the war in VN and elsewhere. If the national policy dictates - they don't exist - something we have always known - and now we have the proof thereof because of the open debate about the future of the CIA etc. The following is from ----------- This comprehensive treatment of intelligence reform issues was prepared by former CIA analyst John A. Gentry for submission to the Congressional intelligence committees and the Aspin Commission on Intelligence Roles and Missions. Because of its unusually rich content and provocative insights, The Project on Intelligence Reform of the the Federation of American Scientists offers it here for broader public consideration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Framework for Reform of the U.S. Intelligence Community by John A. Gentry 6 June 1995 ========================== and is found at http://www.fas.org/irp/gentry/chapter5.html ================================ and contains the following concerning the above mentioned subject as follows: There are several major political reasons to keep the Defense Department out of covert operations: * It is important to be able to maintain plausible deniability. Use of American citizen-soldiers, poorly able or untrained in concealing their national heritage, sharply reduces our ability to conceal involvement. * Families of soldiers lost in battle are more likely to complain publicly that they sent their loved ones to "defend the country"--not participate in some "dirty" war only tangentially related to America's immediate defense. * Unhappy mothers and wives of servicemen lost in covert actions are much more likely to demand "accountability" than the families of intelligence officers who know the rules of the game. The POW/MIA cottage industry of the post-Vietnam War period is more likely to "reinvent" itself to find soldiers lost in covert actions than it is to seek out missing or dead intelligence operatives or agents.... And, successful covert para-military actions may benefit from or even require the access, sources, and tradecraft of the clandestine service of CIA that the Defense Department cannot match. All of these problems are avoidable through continued separation of the Department of Defense from traditional CIA para-military covert operations...... Now we know that uphappy mothers - and families lost in battle are more likely to complain - Tell that to the families of Phou Pha Thi - They had to battle this so - called CIA master ability to do things right - CIA was more responsible for our losses in Laos being "hidden" because of these so-called political sensitivities - and if we ever wanted more proof of what we already knew - here it is - all you "members of the POW/MIA cottage industry" - of which I am proud to be associated with you - Larry J. O'Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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