DENIAL AND DECEPTION: AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF THE CIA FROM IRAN-CONTRA TO 9/11
Melissa Boyle Mahle

Christine Cabon is a French military officer best known for her part in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior...

Speaking at a university forum in 1993, Gates stated that at the time of his confirmation, 60 percent of the CIA budget was devoted to Soviet issues. By the time he left, Russian issues accounted for only 13 percent of the budget.

...Yasir Arafat had jeopardized Gulf Arab financial backing for the Palestinian cause when he chose to tailgate Palestinian popular opinion and support the Iraqi position during the Gulf War.

In a show of Islamic solidarity Sudan changed its visa laws in 1991, allowing any Muslim into the country without a visa.

1993
On January 25th, during the morning commute, chaos broke out in front of the gates of CIA headquarters. Lansing Bennett and Frank Darling were murdered as they sat at the traffic light, waiting to turn into the restricted drive leading into the CIA compound.

Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden

There is an old saying in the Directorate of Operations among operations officers: If you don't like a case, for whatever reason, but do not have a good reason to terminate it, polygraph the agent. The test can be engineered to ensure that the agent fails.

Named 'Project Bojinka,' the cell planned to simultaneously blow up twelve airplanes as they flew across the Atlantic.

"Against All Enemies" - Richard Clarke's memoir

"Inside The CIA" - Ronald Kessler

"See No Evil" - Baer

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