CIA staff told to avoid politics
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US intelligence chief Porter Goss tells CIA employees not to support opposition to the Bush administration.
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The CIA was in turmoil last night as supporters and critics of its new director fought a bitter and very public war of words over his efforts to overhaul America&#39;s main intelligence service.
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A senior U.S. administration official on Wednesday warned that ongoing inquiries into secret CIA activities in the European Union may undermine intelligence cooperation between the United States and European nations.
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A preliminary study contracted by the Pentagon has concluded that the Defense Department should not take charge of the CIA's paramilitary functions, senior defense officials said yesterday.
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The U.S. Army's internal investigation into the abuse of detainees in Iraq cast a new spotlight on alleged wrongdoing by a government agency that has until now turned aside external inquiries -- from the military as well as the media -- into the actions of its personnel in Iraq: the CIA.
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The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee urged fellow lawmakers not to allow confirmation hearings on a new CIA director to derail efforts to overhaul US spy agencies.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush&#39;s nominee to lead the CIA pledged Tuesday to shelve his partisan Republican rhetoric and to encourage the agency&#39;s overseas operatives to take more risks in spying and counterterrorism operations.
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The departure of senior personnel from the CIA continued yesterday with the resignation of two leading spymasters, deepening fears of low morale in the agency, and a backlash against the ambitious reform agenda of its new director.
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The head of the CIA&#39;s analysis branch has become the latest victim of a purge of the intelligence agency following the appointment of its new director, Porter Goss, it was reported yesterday.
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John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director this summer, left as the agency appears to be in turmoil under new director Goss and others are threatening to leave, officials said.
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Leader of department criticized for mistakes on Iraq indicates that she is being forced out. By Greg Miller. WASHINGTON -- The head of the CIA&#39;s analytic division told her staff Tuesday that she is resigning
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U.S. officials dismissed fears that  proposed reforms of the intelligence system could jeopardize  military operations and said the concerns were being fueled by  bureaucratic turf battles.
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Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent.  It is the agency's first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001,  attacks to curb what critics have decried as the growing privatization of U.S. intelligence work, a circumstance that has sharply boo...
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Countering severe criticism of the CIA, the agency's departing deputy director called for an end to the "tirades and hyperbole" that he said are hampering constructive debate about needed intelligence reform.
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Leading senators expressed concern Sunday about a report that the CIA has secretly moved as many as a dozen unidentified prisoners out of Iraq in the past six months, a possible violation of international treaties.
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Two further top CIA officials from the organisation&#39;s clandestine unit are reported to have resigned. The intelligence officials, who are not named, are said to have held senior positions in the CIA&#39;s Directorate of Operations, the New York Times reports.
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The Republican congressman chosen by  President Bush to head the CIA said on Tuesday his Democratic  Party critics were wrong to say he was too partisan to take the  job.