[Southack]

The CIA *has* lots of terminal, almost-certainly fatal problems, but the only "1980's" figures are editorial comments from the LA Times, not from their source (Perle).

Perle is referring to 1998; the LA Times seems to find that date uncomfortable. They cite "late 1980's or early 1990's."

[trumandogz]

Agreed and The LA Times as well as us should be objective and understand that CIA guys killed in the 1980's are just as dead as the CIA guys killed in the 1990's.