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> >Opinion: The Spies Who Shagged Us
> >Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 05:11:05 AM
> >From: Expert53
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> >Dear Editor:
> >The following "The Spies Who shagged Us" is herewith submitted as an
> opinion
> >piece.
> >
> >THE SPIES WHO SHAGGED US
> >
> >by
> >
> >Michael Levine
> >25 year, veteran, DEA Agent
> >
> >
> > I saw the latest Austin Powers movie, "The Spy Who Shagged Me"
> the
> >other day and throughout the movie could not get the CIA out of my mind.
> >What exactly does a bumbling, goofy, inept spy with bad teeth, an
> overblown
> >ego and a missing "mojo" have in common with our own $30 billion a year
> >"real" life, super-spies? Everything.
> > Look, the fact is that I'm a court qualified Expert Witness and
> 25
> >year veteran federal agent who never lost a federal case that I was
> charged
> >with bringing to trial. Among my cases were some of the most complicated
> and
> >important conspiracy cases on record. So I value my credibility and
> don't
> >make claims that aren't backed up by facts. Let's examine just a few of
> the
> >lowlights of the Central Shagadellic Agency's known record for the past
> >several decades and see what I mean:
> > -They allowed "Doctor Evil" China, to steal our nuclear
> technology
> >and, THEN bombed their embassy?
> > -They allowed their own chief of Soviet Counterintelligence,
> Aldrich
> >Ames, to work for the, then, "Doctor Evil" KGB for eight years,
> completely
> >destroying all CIA's human intelligence capabilities in Russia-and if it
> >weren't for the FBI, the drunken, bumbling traitor who would have been
> >detected quicker by Walmart Security would still be working for them.
> > -They missed the fall of Russia entirely.
> > -They missed the development of Nuclear weapons by India, while
> > every
> >Indian waiter in the Big Apple was gossiping about it for a year before
> it
> >happened.
> > -They were outsmarted by "Doctor Evil" Sadaam Hussein so badly
> that
> >they were the laughing stock of the espionage world.
> > -They admitted, before Congress, to looking the other way for
> > over a
> >decade at massive drug smuggling into the US by their "assets" like
> Manuel
> >Noriega and the Nicarauguan Contras, while Americans trying to keep the
> >stuff out of the brains and veins of their children, were taxed more than
> a
> >half trillion dollars to fight drugs
> > -They called the informant who walked into their Nairobi office
>
> > with
> >accurate details of the embassy bombings that would kill hundreds nine
> months
> >later, a liar.
> > -The Cuban, Bay of Pigs fiasco-according to a CIA Inspector
> >General's report, hidden in the Director's safe under "national security"
> for
> >37 years-was due to CIA amateurishness, puffed up egos and their lies to
> the
> >President of the United States.
> > -Under their infamous MK-Ultra program, they used US taxpayer
> > dollars
> >to carry out some of the wackiest and most criminal mind control
> experiments
> >this side of the Third Reich on unwitting, innocent people around the
> world.
> >Even surreptitiously dosed one of their own scientists, Dr. Frank Olsen,
> >causing him to leap out of tenth floor hotel room in NYC.
> > -They gave the, then, "good guys," the America-hating
> Mujihideen,
> >750 stinger missiles to fight the, then, "Doctor Evil" Soviets (now
> "good
> >guys") during the Afghan war. A good portion of these shoulder-fired,
> >surface to air missiles are now in the hands of the, now, "Doctor Evil"
> >Muslim terrorists and the subject of recent State Department alerts.
> Yes,
> >they can now be used to shoot OUR planes out of the sky.
> > -They supported the, now, "Doctor Evil" Numero Uno, Bin
> Ladeen,
> >during the Afghan war, when he was a "good guy" and a "freedom fighter,"
> >throwing tens of millions in US taxpayer dollars into his efforts at
> >creating, arming and training the first Pan Arab army in history, many of
> >whom are now the terrorists engaged in a holy war against us!
> > -Among those trained with US taxpayer dollars in Afghanistan was
> >Ramsey Youseff, the man who bombed the World Trade Center.
> > Look, I can go on for pages but I think the list is already
> >shagadellic enough to prove the point. And if you're not yet convinced
> that
> >this is a spy agency in frantic search of its own mojo, at our expense,
> dig
> >this:
> > In May 1998 when CIA failed to discern that India was preparing
> to
> >explode nuclear devices DCI George Tenet appointed a team to investigate
> this
> >stupefying intelligence failure, headed by retired Vice Admiral David E.
> >Jeremiah. The report damned CIA's performance and recommended across
> the
> >board changes and improvements.
> > Specifically, Admiral Jeremiah said that the CIA "needs to be
> >scrubbed from the top down, from its spies to its analysts to its
> >bureaucratic barons." The [Indian] debacle revealed chronic failures of
> >imagination and personnel, flaws in information-gathering and analysis,
> and
> >faulty leadership and training."
> > This finding, so critical to the security of the American
> people,
> > was
> >virtually absent from mainstream media and our congressional "protectors"
> >pretended it didn't exist.
> > And that's the other reason the world of our "real" CIA is so
> > similar
> >to the Austin Powers world. What makes Austin Powers movies funny is
> that
> >everyone in his world, particularly the politicians and the media seem to
> >take the guy seriously. He cannot screw up enough to outrage the bizarro
> >characters in his world.
> > Apparently the same can be said for the world of our CIA. Every
> >single screwup they have committed led invariably to Congress raising
> their
> >budgets. (i.e., $3 billion increase after bombing the Chinese Embassy).
> >And if that weren't bad enough, every single debacle they get involved in
> is
> >looked at by our media-who are awarded Pulitzers for Monica Lewinsky
> >reporting- as unique, with their entire shagadellic history immediately
> >forgotten.
> > One of the few CIA officers I've ever met whom I would consider
> a
> >street smart professional is 25 year veteran Ralph McGehee, who furnished
> me
> >with excerpts from a CIA document, obtained via an FOIA request, wherein
> the
> >Agency's PAO (public affairs office) bragged that its relationships with
> >"reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly and TV
> >network... has helped turn some 'intelligence failure' stories into
> >'intelligence success' stories..."
> > As testament to the PAO's success at media manipulation, the
> CIA's
> >decades long record of horrific failure and screw-ups has been well
> >documented but only published briefly and superficially by mainstream
> media.
> > As I write this, for example, the bombing of the Chinese embassy, an
> act
> >that still may cost America dearly, has virtually vanished from
> mainstream
> >American media in a blur of conflicting vague statements leaving the
> public
> >confused about what really happened.
> > Let's face it folks, having a $30 billion a year spy agency in
> >perpetual search for its lost mojo is only funny in movies. If there is
> a
> >lesson in this latest screwup of bombing the embassy of a belligerent,
> >nuclear superpower, it is that we had better follow Admiral Jeremiah's
> >recommendations and take these guys apart before they do it to us.
> > Last week a New York newspaper reported that the Director of
> Central
> >Intelligence addressed a graduating class of his high school where he
> >admitted that he was "the biggest mouth in his class." How ironic that
> he
> >would become the head of Central Intelligence.
> > Shagadellic, Baby.
> >
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