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IN THE NEWS
Baltimore Sun, July 24, 2005: "String of Bombings Could Set Off Others"
Excerpt: Orchestrating a small-scale attack such as the July 7 bombings in London requires only a handful of local residents, so the math is in the attackers' favor, said Mark Lowenthal, who has served as assistant director of central intelligence for analysis and production at the CIA and Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council.
"That's the attraction to this kind of activity," Lowenthal said. "You don't need many people to have a lasting effect."
Baltimore Sun,October 16, 2005: "Broad duties test spy chiefs"
Some of the same coordination problems that troubled U.S. intelligence agencies before Sept. 11 and in the lead-up to the Iraq war may be emerging under America's new spy chief, intelligence professionals warn.
Washington Post, October 19, 2005: "A Year Later, Goss's CIA Is Still in Turmoil"
When Porter J. Goss took over a failure-stained CIA last year, he promised to reshape the agency beginning with the area he knew best: its famed spy division. Goss, himself a former covert operative who had chaired the House intelligence committee, focused on the officers in the field. He pledged status and resources for case officers, sending hundreds more to far-off assignments, undercover and on the front line of the battle against al Qaeda.
Intelligence Center Is Created for Unclassified Information
Top intelligence officials announced on Tuesday the creation of a new agency, the Open Source Center, to gather and analyze information from the Web, broadcasts, newspapers and other unclassified sources around the world.
CIA Yet to Assess Harm From Plame's Exposure
More than Valerie Plame's identity was exposed when her name appeared in a syndicated column in the summer of 2003. A small Boston company listed as her employer suddenly was shown to be a bogus CIA front, and her alma mater in Belgium discovered it was a favored haunt of an American spy. At Langley, officials in the clandestine service quickly began drawing up a list of contacts and friends, cultivated over more than a decade, to triage any immediate damage.
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