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In a message dated 99-05-11 16:47:15 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
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In a message dated 99-05-11 19:54:40 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
China can't do anything effective in retaliation,
Oh, I dunno ... I think it'd be a good time (what with a semi-secret
Chinese/N.Korean "mutual defense pact" in the offing) for China to (re)occupy
Taiwan with
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In a message dated 05/11/1999 7:54:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
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
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In a message dated 05/12/1999 3:52:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ironically, if you go back and re-read that article carefully, it makes
clear
that the CIA was using the PENTAGON's maps which were out of date -- yet the
CIA gets the blame AND somehow
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From: Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] "Poor CIA"
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 1:51 AM
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In a message dated 99-05-11 16:47:15 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA may we
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Well, I don't really believe that the bombing of the Chinese Embassy was an
accident. Even the CIA ain't *that* stupid. Besides, intelligence officers
have to be used to working with old maps and atlases, sometimes *very* old.
During the Italian campaign in 1944-45, Allied
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From: Robert Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I don't really believe that the bombing of the Chinese Embassy
was an accident. Even the CIA ain't *that* stupid.
What, you're under-estimating the stupidity of gov't workers? Hmmm...
Ric "sometimes
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Whats that old joke - we thought it was fool proof - to which was
replied "yeh, but you don't know our CIA".
Colleen
Just kidding..I have known a couple that were pretty bright, but
also pretty disgusted with their "superiors".
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CTRL is a
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Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Robert Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I don't really believe that the bombing of the Chinese Embassy
was an accident. Even the CIA ain't *that* stupid.
What, you're
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In a message dated 05/11/1999 4:10:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
-Caveat Lector-
- Original Message -
From: Prudence L. Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
-Caveat Lector-
Das GOAT wrote:
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CIA Error May Yield Budget Increase
By JOHN DIAMOND
.c The Associated Press
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
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