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washingtonpost .com
Friends of the CIA
By Jim Hoagland
Sunday, April 7, 2002; Page B07
On a visit to Washington a year ago, Palestinian security chief Jibril
Rajoub proudly showed off an armor-plated limousine that he said the Central
Intelligence Agency "always provides me when I am here." Last week on the
West Bank, Rajoub was running for his life from Israeli troops seeking to
eliminate the territory's "terrorist infrastructure."
The CIA helped Rajoub make his way out of his fire-gutted compound in
Beitunia and arrange the surrender of dozens of his operatives as Ariel
Sharon's siege intensified. The American agents were doing what comes
naturally in their profession -- protecting assets, however troublesome
those assets may become for others.
Rajoub's plight points up the exposed position into which U.S. intelligence
officers -- and U.S. policy -- have been dragged in the new
Israeli-Palestinian war. The Palestinian militias that the CIA has been
building up under presidential order are the primary recipients of Sharon's
wrath and firepower. Sharon intends to conquer, or destroy, what the CIA
hath wrought on the West Bank.
The Bush administration now faces an acute dilemma in unraveling the
confusion and complexities created by U.S. intelligence taking on
responsibilities that are deeply operational and political. Operating under
an intelligence "finding" signed by President Clinton, the CIA has helped
train and equip Yasser Arafat's security forces.
And the CIA in one form or another became publicly involved in the grooming
of Rajoub and other security commanders as potential leaders in the
post-Arafat era. Instead of objectively sorting through and analyzing the
looming succession struggle for Washington, agents on the ground have horses
in the race.
Mixing espionage and political duties is always dangerous. It tends to
produce short-term successes (providing intelligence to Saddam Hussein,
obtaining funding for the contras) and long-term liabilities for U.S.
foreign policy (ditto). CIA Director George Tenet presumably recognized the
dangers when he initially resisted this role for his agency. Sharon's
assault on the militias shows why Tenet should have stood his ground.
The Israeli prime minister twists the knife in the corpse of a failed U.S.
policy that began in late 1998, worked well in 1999 and then died in 2001
when the Palestinian Preventive Security force abandoned meaningful
cooperation with the Israelis. When Sharon, or President Bush, speaks of
Arafat's failure to "control terrorism," it is this default of the security
services and police that they have in mind.
Sharon's message to Rajoub, Mohammed Dahlan, Marwan Barghouti and Arafat's
other lieutenants is clear: Take on the suicide bombers and leaders of Hamas
or face destruction for being useless, complicit or both. You are the
"infrastructure" that must be uprooted.
So far the Palestinians continue to hesitate, presumably out of the same
fear or ambition that caused them, as Arafat's intifada intensified, to stop
halting would-be suicide bombers and other terrorists or tipping off the
Israelis. When Rajoub agreed on Tuesday through the CIA to give up his
compound at Beitunia after running out of food and ammunition, he
immediately came under attack from Hamas for allowing a half-dozen of its
"warriors" to fall into Israeli hands and for being "an American agent."
There is a giant Catch-22 at the heart of the Faustian bargain that Israel,
the United States and the Palestinian Authority struck as part of the Wye
Plantation accords of 1998. While CIA support brings resources and power to
the recipient, the agency's visible embrace can also be used to discredit
both a person and a cause in the eyes of many Arabs, not just the killers of
Hamas.
U.S. interests can also be compromised by arrangements dominated by the
agency's covert skills of finding "assets" that can be bought, manipulated
or coerced into doing the agency's bidding. This is hardly the definition of
reliable allies who are likely to promote American democratic principles in
the political arena.
Ironically, it was Binyamin Netanyahu, then Israel's prime minister, who
insisted at the Wye meeting that the CIA deepen its engagement with the
Palestinian security forces, which became more heavily armed through the
deal. This was to ensure that they carried out the unspoken responsibility
Arafat accepted in the 1993 Oslo accords: The Palestinians would eliminate
the terrorist threat in the areas the Israelis agreed to leave, without much
concern by Washington or Jerusalem over methods.
But means do influence ends. The security arrangements were contaminated by
the corruption, authoritarianism and weakness that Arafat and his
lieutenants practiced on their own people -- who end up paying a terrible
price for the failures of the CIA's friends in their midst.
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