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CIA chief in Pakistan talks: PM's office (AFP)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:52:13 +0000

AFP - CIA chief Leon Panetta on Friday held talks in Pakistan and found agreement on intelligence cooperation as President Barack Obama nears a decision on troop deployments to Afghanistan, Islamabad said.

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CIA chief in Pakistan talks: PM's office (AFP)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:26:41 +0000

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Fine Print: Settling a CIA-DNI turf war

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

For those of you who believe the only thing the CIA leadership has to do is provide all-source intelligence analyses to President Obama and his top policymakers, think again. Besides two wars raging and the U.S. clandestine and covert operations abroad, the agency must carry out operations on the...

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James Lilley dies at 81; ambassador to China and CIA operative

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Lilley, who was born in China, was respected by both China and Taiwan. He watched the Tiananmen Square protests unfold and was highly critical of Beijing's crackdown. > James R. Lilley, a longtime CIA operative in Asia who served as ambassador to China during the Tiananmen Square crackdown and was regarded as one of the most pragmatic voices on the modern Sino-American relationship, has died. He was 81.

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James Lilley, a former ambassador to China, dies (AP)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:53:31 +0000

AP - James R. Lilley, a longtime CIA operative and later the U.S. ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died. He was 81.

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For smug KSM, federal court could be perfect arena

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

When two planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, Khalid Sheik Mohammed was sitting in an Internet cafe in Karachi, Pakistan, monitoring the attacks. At first, Mohammed later told CIA interrogators, he was disappointed. He said that he expected the...

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CIA said to have won turf war against intel chief (AP)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:31:52 +0000

AP - The CIA has won a turf battle over which government agency controls U.S. intelligence operations around the world.

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Ex-spy Plame and publisher lose memoir appeal

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:28:22 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide lost an appeal on Thursday to declassify parts of her memoir.

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U.S. ex-spy Plame and publisher lose memoir appeal

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:36:25 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide lost an appeal on Thursday to declassify parts of her memoir.

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CIA said to have won turf war against intel chief (AP)

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:16:45 +0000

AP - Two intelligence officials say the CIA has won a monthslong turf battle with the Office of National Intelligence, assuring the primacy of CIA station chiefs over other U.S. intelligence operations and personnel around the world.

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