Inside the CIA (56 page)

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An operations officer is a staff employee of the CIA and works for the Directorate of Operations, the human-spying side of the agency. The term is synonymous with
case officer.
The Directorate of Operations is also referred to as the clandestine service or the covert side of the CIA.

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Because it could still compromise people who aided the effort, neither the city nor the date of the bugging is included here.

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Because doing so could jeopardize the man’s life, his identity and details of his assignments are not revealed here. The author has made it a point not to learn his identity

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The Directorate of Operations was previously known euphemistically as the Directorate for Plans.

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The document giving presidential approval to a covert action is referred to as a finding because it begins, “I hereby find that the following activities are important to the national security of the United States.”

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Mole
is a popular term that refers to an intelligence officer who penetrates an opposing intelligence service, usually having already worked there.

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Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence obtained by monitoring electromagnetic waves or signals from any source, including foreign radio transmitters, radar, missiles, satellites, and spacecraft. Human intelligence (HUMINT) is intelligence collected by humans.

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Richard Stolz framed the question, “What will happen
when
it becomes public?”

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Several White House fellows who were women had worked for Webster, but they were not considered on the same level as his special assistants.

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On August 16, 1976, the author requested from the CIA’s Freedom of Information Office material relating to John (Johnny) Roselli, who had been an intermediary in the CIA’s attempts to enlist the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro. When the material was not forthcoming after several months had elapsed, the author appealed. The material—primarily the CIA inspector general’s report on the agency’s attempts to kill or embarrass Fidel Castro—finally arrived on December 27, 1990, more than fourteen years later. It contained some additional details on the CIA’s fruitless attempts to do in Castro, but nothing earth-shattering.

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The existence of the defector was revealed in the author’s book
The FBI: Inside the World’s Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency.

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How the FBI catches spies is the subject of the author’s book
Spy vs. Spy.

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The CIA’s mishandling of Yurchenko is portrayed in the author’s book
Escape from the CIA
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The first three directors of Central Intelligence headed the Central Intelligence Group, a forerunner of the CIA established on January 22, 1946. The CIA was established by the National Security Act of 1947, which became effective on September 18, 1947. Adm. Hillenkoeter was reappointed DCI over the new agency.