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- Glasnost a la Gates. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Jul/Aug1992, Vol. 48 Issue 6, p6
Suggests that the CIA is not making much headway into making more information public, as was promised by CIA Director Robert Gates at his confirmation last fall . In March, Penny Bevis, director of the Center for National Security Studies, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for...
- If Bush--or Clinton--were really like Truman. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Nov1992, Vol. 48 Issue 9, p4
Presents a quote by President Harry Truman: `The CIA was a mistake. If I had known what it would become, I would have never created it.'
- Curiouser and curiouser. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Nov/Dec1994, Vol. 50 Issue 6, p7
Comments on the practice of the Central Intelligence Agency of withholding information even when required by law.
- You call that intelligence? Prados, John // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Mar/Apr1997, Vol. 53 Issue 2, p20
Deals with the techniques that is being used by the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) head spin doctors for minimizing the impact of news detrimental to their chieftains. How the technique worked to perfection at the hand of CIA director, John M. Deutch; Significance of Los Angeles cocaine...
- Intelligence Oversight Act. // Congressional Digest;Dec88, Vol. 67 Issue 12, p289
Considers Congressional bills which would change the existing procedures for Congressional oversight of intelligence activities. Problem evaluating and debating policies concerning performance. Analysis; Provisions; Controversy.
- What to do about the CIA. Pipes, Richard // Commentary;Mar1995, Vol. 99 Issue 3, p36
Discusses recommendations which seek to address the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) fundamental problems. Background on the foundation of CIA; Assessment of CIA's performance; Intelligence failure and faulty assessment; Mirror-imaging approach; Political interference; Instances of...
- Five basic reforms needed for CIA to regain credibility. Goodman, Melvin A. // Christian Science Monitor;1/24/95, Vol. 87 Issue 40, p19
Opinion. Provides an open memo to the Director-Designate of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the United States. Role of James Woolsey; Author's suggestions on the role of the CIA.
- US intelligence failure shows need for reform. Goodman, Melvin A. // Christian Science Monitor;5/18/98, Vol. 90 Issue 120, p11
Contends that the failure of the United States Central Intelligence Agency to provide advance notice of the testing of several nuclear weapons in India in May of 1998 is symptomatic of three major deficiencies which the agency is facing. How politicization has affected the CIA; Increasing...
- Fifty years--too many?--for the CIA. Schorr, Daniel // Christian Science Monitor;8/15/97, Vol. 89 Issue 183, p19
Opinion. Discusses the problems that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is facing in 1997, its fiftieth year of existence. Several failures that the CIA has been involved in; Its attempt to mount a coup from northern Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein; Outlook for the CIA.
- Spying the future. // Current Events;10/21/91, Vol. 91 Issue 7, p1
Looks at how the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is adapting to new challenges in a fast-changing world. New director Robert Gates; Vanished Soviet threat; How CIA gathers information; HUMIT (human intelligence gathering); ELINT (electronic intelligence gathering); Spy satellites; Phone...
