Posted on 12/23/2003 5:34:30 PM PST by blam
CIA Sends Some Holiday Goodies Overseas
Wednesday December 24, 2003 1:01 AM
WASHINGTON(AP) - Spies want a little something in their stockings, too.
So the CIA, experiencing its largest overseas deployment since the Vietnam War, delivered some holiday goodies to its hundreds of personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The shipment totals about seven tons and consists mainly of items that are difficult to obtain in those countries, CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said.
That includes 2,750 pounds of coffee, tea and hot chocolate, 5,150 pounds of chocolate and candy, 400 pounds of DVDs and CDs and 6,000 pounds of books and magazines, he said. It was brought over on several flights by transport aircraft earlier in December.
The items were donated by agency employees, Mansfield said.
Some were brought by A.B. ``Buzzy'' Krongard, the No. 3 man at CIA, during a recent visit to agency officers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The CIA's presence in Iraq includes operatives and analysts involved in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction, translators, and counterinsurgency experts; in Afghanistan, it includes operatives hunting for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders.
Don''t want the babies to not have a Merry Christmas.
geez...what a ridiculous development.
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