Deputy chief resigns from CIA (CIA Said to Be in Turmoil Under New Director Goss)

washingtonpost.com ^ | Saturday, November 13 | Dana Priest and Walter Pincus

[crushelits]

Deputy Chief Resigns From CIA Agency Is Said to Be in Turmoil Under New Director Goss.

The deputy director of the CIA resigned yesterday after a series of confrontations over the past week between senior operations officials and CIA Director Porter J. Goss's new chief of staff that have left the agency in turmoil, according to several current and former CIA officials.

John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director for two months this summer until Goss took over, resigned after warning Goss that his top aide, former Capitol Hill staff member Patrick Murray, was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked widespread resignations, the officials said.

[Grampa Dave]

The rat hole runs as deep to when anyone came in to the farm during the Carter Years. Those were and still are the worse. Then the rat hole reopened during the Clintoon years.

[Grampa Dave]

"The Washington Post is losing its contacts inside the Company."

Those contacts go back to the Carter days, when Carter moles in the agency would notify the Post the names of effective CIA Agents and their duty station and cover.

We had a friend who was exposed while on ops in country. His name, duty station and country were listed in the Washington Post and I believe the NY Slimes. Fortunately he was able get out of where he was and head back to the states. He was not able to go back to get his family.

They got his wife, oldest daughter and young son out quickly. The younger daughter was on some type of tour, and it was a few days before they could get her out.

We ended up keeping the older daughter for a few weeks, while his wife and son went to some unrelated friends to be joined by the other daughter. He went back to the farm for debriefing and decided to retire.

[Thud]

The world's smallest violin is playing (excerpt):

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscia1114,0,707331.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

CIA plans to purge its agency
Sources say White House has ordered new chief to eliminate officers who were disloyal to Bush

by KNUT ROYCE
WASHINGTON BUREAU

November 14, 2004

WASHINGTON -- The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.

"The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."

One of the first casualties appears to be Stephen R. Kappes, deputy director of clandestine services, the CIA's most powerful division. The Washington Post reported yesterday that Kappes had tendered his resignation after a confrontation with Goss' chief of staff, Patrick Murray, but at the behest of the White House had agreed to delay his decision till tomorrow.

But the former senior CIA official said that the White House "doesn't want Steve Kappes to reconsider his resignation. That might be the spin they put on it, but they want him out." He said the job had already been offered to the former chief of the European Division who retired after a spat with then-CIA Director George Tenet.
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[Spacetrucker]

Speaking of the "Tube", I heard recently there was an 'accident' between two trains. T or F?

[Spacetrucker]

I'm not sure that the Dep. Dir. is rightly characterized as a "Clintoon" holdover, seeing as he has been involved with the Agency for quite some time before Herr Klintonschtag took over - but his political leanings may be on the same track.

[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

This is exactly what the agency needs. It was filled with dead wood career bureaucrats and very left leaning garbage. The Tenent years left the agency as ineffective as it has ever been in it's history. Those that are whining and quitting are the ones the agency needs to $h*tc@n.

[vannrox]

John E. McLaughlin became Deputy Director of Central Intelligence on 19 October 2000. Following former DCI George J. Tenet's departure from office on 11 July 2004, he also served as Acting Director of Central Intelligence until 24 September 2004. Prior to becoming DDCI, he held the posts of Deputy Director for Intelligence, Vice Chairman for Estimates, and Acting Chairman of the National Intelligence Council.

Mr. McLaughlin came to the CIA in 1972 and worked in the early part of his career on various European, Russian, and Eurasian issues in the Directorate of Intelligence. In 1984-85, he served a rotational tour at State Department in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, where he was responsible for following European relations with the Middle East, Central America, and Africa. In April 1989, Mr. McLaughlin was appointed the Director of European Analysis. Three months after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Mr. McLaughlin was appointed the Director of Slavic and Eurasian Analysis. He held this position until mid-1995, concentrating on political, economic, and military issues in Russia and the 14 other new states that emerged from the USSR. During this period, he represented the Intelligence Community on numerous diplomatic delegations visiting Russia and the other newly-independent states.

During his tenure as Deputy Director for Intelligence from July 1997 to July 2000, Mr. McLaughlin was responsible for the analysis of political, economic, and military events worldwide. During this period, he created the Senior Analytic Service, a CIA career track that enables analysts to rise to very senior rank without branching out into management. He also founded The Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, an institution dedicated to teaching the history, mission, and essential skills of the analytic profession to new CIA employees.

As Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, he assisted Director George J. Tenet in overseeing the operational, analytic, scientific, and technical activities of the Intelligence Community. He represented the Intelligence Community at meetings of the National Security Council?s Deputies Committee, in briefings with the President, and at hearings on Capitol Hill.

Mr. McLaughlin received his BA from Wittenberg University in 1964 and his MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1966, with a specialty in European Affairs. During this period, he spent a year on Capitol Hill as a Staff Assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania. Mr. McLaughlin spent one year of his Master?s program studying at the SAIS Center in Bologna, Italy, and did additional graduate work in comparative politics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

From 1966 to 1969, Mr. McLaughlin served as a US Army officer after graduating from the Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia. He served a tour in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969.

[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

Kappes and Sulick both are both part of the left wing problem at CIA and both need to be removed immediately. Kappes may be a professional, but he is certainly not loyal to the President nor to the war on terror. I would be highly suspect of anybody he recruited to CIA. Their background and performance should be closely scrutinized.

[Snapple]

You are wrong.

[maestro]

John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director for two months this summer until Goss took over, resigned after warning Goss that his top aide, former Capitol Hill staff member Patrick Murray, was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked widespread resignations, the officials said.

Tennant's new office called, Department 'CYA',......many to join in near future?

[potlatch]

I wasn't online last night but I'm sure by now you've seen the article on Drudge about the CIA 'purging'!

[ForGod'sSake]

Speaking of the "Tube", I heard recently there was an 'accident' between two trains. T or F?

Hmmmm, seems the only train wreck I'm aware of(except for the Dims on Nov 2 heh heh) was in England a few days ago. Or have I missed a zinger somewhere???

FGS

[oldbrowser]

This is the management team that gave Bush the bad information in the first place, then leaked harmful
reports during the election. Now they are resigning
because they feel they are not being treated with
respect. They should not have gotten involved in politics if they were looking for respect.

[Spacetrucker]

Negative on zingers. The rumor mill up here in Western PA is rather unreliable - heard of a tail-to-head meeting of two trains in your vicinity - figures there's nothing to it.

[Smokin' Joe]

You never heard any of the career bureaucrats at the CIA complain about agency "chaos" when they were back in the Clinton days missing India's nuclear tests. You never heard them complain when they missed 9/11.

I'm not so sure they are at liberty to complain, unless they resign. The choice would be to quit or stay on and try to effect change from within.

Clinton's bunch would have made it hard to get anything done, anyway. Just tracking what the Clintons were giving away/selling to the Chinese would consume huge resources by itself.

Not to mention trying to find State Dept Laptops.

[thag]

I had someone actually tell me that I couldn't be a NEOCON because I'm not Jewish! If I ever said the J-E-W-S are behind some movement I'd be branded anti-Semitic in a heartbeat but from a lib, it's acceptable.

thag

[Redbob]

"Widespread resignations" from the CIA would be a good start towards gettign rid of those trying to torpedo George Bush's Presidency.

Then maybe it'll be time for a few forced early retirements.

[ForGod'sSake]

The rumor mill up here in Western PA is rather unreliable - heard of a tail-to-head meeting of two trains in your vicinity...

Well, well. To tell you the truth, I've got Dierct TV, and where I am(in the piney woods) I can't get local channels and rarely buy a (more or less)local paper. So, it's entirely possible there could have been a train wreck just down the road from me and I wouldn't know about it unless I were to pick it up in local chit chat. You have piqued my curiosity in any case, so I think I'll do some snooping around to see if I may have missed it.

FGS

[vannrox]

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THE CIA HAS BECOME THE IVORY TOWER FOR LIBERAL ELITE.
THE TIME IS LONG GONE TO FLUSH THEM ALL DOWN THE DRAIN.

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[Snapple]

Kappes worked his way up to the head of the clandestine service via the Marines. He did not attend an expensive East COast University.

Seems like the Free Republic wants to destroy the careers of the best spies in the CIA.

Maybe Free Republic is not what it seems?