CIA Spooked About Tell-All Books- Wants To 'Clamp Down' On Writers

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CIA cracks down on leaks
From: Agence France-Presse
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17767352-38198,00.html

January 09, 2006

CIA director Porter Goss is redoubling efforts to prevent agents from divulging the spy agency's secrets to the media, and also plans to clamp down on former spies publishing books about their covert careers, Time magazine has reported.

Citing an anonymous former senior Central Intelligence Agency official, Time, in a report to hit newsstands this week, said on its website that CIA officials told employees during a meeting last week that leaking had gotten out of control and needed to stop.

The reported added that a new clampdown on leakers had been launched, supported by a team of "mostly retired" agents contracted to scan the news media for possible leaks of classified material and to try to find the leakers responsible.

The internal crackdown follows recent media reports about the CIA's secret prison network for terror suspects and last month's disclosure in The New York Times that US President George W Bush authorised the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on the telephone calls of some Americans without court warrants.

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1. I bet they are worried sick about Valerie Plame

telling her story.

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2. No doubt!

[Jara sang]

3. Lindsay Moran's book sucked - 90210 meets covert ops

Dear Diary,

Today I met a really cute Macedonian businessman. I'm really into to him, too bad I have to bug his house and surveil his wife.

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4. "Harriet the Spy"

You have to lie. "But to yourself," says Golly, "you must always tell the truth."

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5. Anyone wonder how many anonymous,...

... untraceable emails Goss got this week calling him a dickhead? :P