>Fascinating piece by Donald Gregg in the Washington Post titled "George Smiley's War"
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/30/AR2007123002236.html
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>The bio at the bottom doesn't give you the real flavor of it. Gregg worked for Shackley - the Ghost - in covert ops in Burma in the 60s and ran a good deal of Phoenix in Vietnam. He was the prime mover in the support of the Contras. He ran Felix Rodriguez - "Max", the guy who got Che ... He is one of George Bush senior's closest confidants in the intelligence world. If Scocroft speaks for Poppy on foreign policy, Gregg speaks for the Bush who ran CIA.
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>If you know how to read between the lines on this one, it is a very big deal and I guarantee you there are folks from Langley to Baghdad to Islamabad to Seoul reading it like tea leaves.
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>Tracy, you're probably the only one who'll realy get this, but I didn't want you to miss it <s>
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>Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
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>Happy New Year.


Interesting reading indeed. Thanks for the link. I would have asked the same question your latin quote asks.

When the Cold War ended the CIA had plenty of Russian speaking officers. How many Arabic speakers did they recruit since? Did they realize the need then? They have a ready-made set of skills in the Arab-American community. Did they recruit there? Or didn't they because of distrust?

We sent Japanese-Americans to internment camps in WWII. Does history really repeat itself? Have we learned anything?