Thursday, July 23, 2009

Flashback: Ex-Aide Calls CIA Under Casey and Gates Corrupt and Slanted

The more things change ... see: "Letter: The CIA's History of 'Creating' Intelligence"

By Paul F. Horvitz
NYT
October 2, 1991

A former top Central Intelligence Agency analyst testified Tuesday that in the 1980s the CIA was a politicized cauldron in which estimates were slanted and false information was presented to the White House to match the policy objectives of the agency's director, William J. Casey.

Story: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:VEVAjnwVWAkJ:www.nytimes.com/1991/10/02/news/02iht-cia_.html+henry+louis+gates+and+the+cia&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us