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CIA effort to beef up recruiting begins to pay off

August 29, 2003 The CIA is having a rough time of it these days. But away from its mea culpas about President Bush's State of the Union speech and the criticism from Congress over pre-9/11 intelligence, the agency may be doing one thing right-its recruitment of spies and analysts. Moreover, the CIA is ...

CIA performance disputed as Congress plans hearings

April 1, 2002 The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks surprised the United States, but whether that was because of intelligence failure or the difficulties of snooping on terrorist plots is a matter of disagreement among former and current intelligence professionals. The question is important not just because the terrorist threat looks to be long-term ...

Senior CIA official says war on terror will go on indefinitely

January 28, 2002 Paul Pillar is one of the government's senior anti-terrorism experts. He joined the CIA in 1977 and rose to become deputy chief of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, an office created in 1986 to assess and combat threats to Americans from Middle Eastern terrorists. The center, staffed by representatives from several ...