Posted on 11/14/2004 4:15:32 AM PST by Snapple
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.
Another recently retired top CIA official said he was unsure Kappes had "officially resigned, but I do know he was unhappy." (see full article)
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
The Washington Post also says that the White House does not want Kappes out. He was given the job as head of the clandestine service in the Spring. He is a former undercover operative who ran a Russian mole right in the security services. He speaks Russian and Farsi. They need Kappes. He knows how to get agents. If Kappes goes, I won't be supporting Bush any more. Kappes is the one who is going to get OBL for us.
Everything I wrote in the comment section is from published sources.
Kappes aside, this is a much needed move. Good decision, Mr. President!
I'm glad this is being done at this time. The timing is perfect, now that the election is over. And the rogue agents within the CIA who had the long knives out for the president realize their old, recycled stories designed to hurt the president failed in large part since he won re-election.
They outted themselves in the last year or so especially and are easier to pick off.
"If Kappes goes, I won't be supporting Bush any more. Kappes is the one who is going to get OBL for us."
President Bush was elected, not Kappes, never heard of him before, and thus far the CIA intel gathering seems to need people who can do just that.
That is comical.
Always a Bush dig. It could never be because of gross incompetence and back biting, could it...
The fact that you never heard of him means you don't know his great achievements. He is a brilliant genius.
Kappes ran a Russian mole named Zaporozhsky. The Russian is mentioned in this story:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/datelinedc/s_172823.html
An American hero worthy of help
Sunday, January 4, 2004
Two years ago, Robert Philip Hanssen, 59, a former very senior FBI official with 27 years of service, was sentenced to life in prison. Hanssen had been spying for the Russians and betrayed American intelligence sources and electronics secrets from as early as 1979.
He revealed the names of nine U.S. spies in the KGB and, it is said in the intelligence community, by 1987 more than 40 agents had been captured or killed. Ten years later American intelligence admitted they had, for a short time, been blind behind the Iron Curtain.
For the last four months of his career, the FBI's surveillance of Hanssen was a brilliant textbook operation that culminated with his arrest at dawn, on a Sunday, as he attempted to empty a "dead drop" of $50,000 in the woods of suburban Virginia. While this was the material for TV docudramas and spy books, we can now ask what alerted the bureau to its traitor.
Friends in the intelligence services say the information came as a result of material collected by a former Russian intelligence officer, Col. Alexander Zaporozhsky, then deputy director of the 1st Section Counter-Intelligence Department of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). They believe that Zaporozhsky had been recruited by the CIA in 1992. The Russians say the colonel exposed as many as 20 spies working for Russia in the United States before providing the material that exposed Hanssen.
"Kappes is the one who is going to get OBL for us."
Well he's done a terrific job on that so far ...
Kappes did a lot for our country. IF anyone wants him out it would be the enemies of our country. HE ran this agent and got a lot of secrets for us. He knows how to spy.
Los Angeles Times
June 12, 2003
Russia Sentences Accused Spy to Jail
Ex-agent who allegedly sold secrets to CIA gets 18 years. He was held after he returned to visit relatives, and his wife contends he was set up.
By Robyn Dixon, Times Staff Writer
A trip home to Moscow to visit relatives in 2001 turned into an 18-year jail sentence for a former Russian intelligence colonel who was convicted Wednesday in a secret court hearing of spying for the United States.
Weeping at her Maryland home, the wife of Alexander Zaporozhsky declared Wednesday that a guilty man would never have returned to Moscow. Galina Zaporozhsky said her husband went back under his own name, having visited a consulate to get a new passport.
But Sergei Ignatchenko, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, or FSB, a successor agency to the KGB, said the evidence against Zaporozhsky was overwhelming.
Zaporozhsky, 52, worked for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, formerly part of the KGB. According to Ignatchenko, Zaporozhsky left Russia illegally in 1997 for the U.S., where he sold his secrets to the CIA, and was "lured back" in November 2001 and arrested.
Galina Zaporozhsky, 49, said in a phone interview that her family was devastated by the conviction and sentencing. The couple have two sons in the U.S. -- Pavel, 28, and Maxim, 21. She believes that material presented as evidence against her husband was concocted by the FSB.
"My husband is innocent. He has not betrayed his country. Could any sober person believe that a person who felt guilty, let alone someone who committed an act of state treason, would ever risk going back to his home country of his free will?" Galina Zaporozhsky asked. Russia's Kommersant Daily newspaper has quoted intelligence sources as saying that Zaporozhsky betrayed Robert Philip Hanssen, the American convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. Hanssen was arrested in February 2001 and Zaporozhsky in November that year. However, Russian authorities have never admitted that Hanssen was their spy.
The judge in Zaporozhsky's case added two years to the 16 years sought by the prosecutor, a fact that the FSB spokesman cited as proof of guilt. But his wife said it demonstrated pressure from authorities.
Russian officials contradicted one another on key details about Zaporozhsky -- for example, the date of his retirement.
Ignatchenko said Zaporozhsky was a Russian foreign intelligence officer who approached the CIA in 1995 and was recruited the same year. But Boris Labusov, a Foreign Intelligence Service spokesman, said Zaporozhsky was discharged from the service in 1992 or 1993.
Ignatchenko said Zaporozhsky quit in 1997 and was in the U.S. a month later, in early 1998.
"In 1997, quite unexpectedly for his colleagues, he quit the service, which came as a surprise to all. In 1998 he left secretly for the United States without informing anyone," Ignatchenko said.
He said Zaporozhsky worked as a double agent in Russia from 1995 until 1997 and was promoted to colonel during that time. This detail, which would be embarrassing to the foreign service, could explain the discrepancy over the dates of Zaporozhsky's service.
The FSB said Zaporozhsky lived in Cockeysville, Md., and reportedly worked at a local firm, Water Shipping Co. Galina Zaporozhsky also said her husband worked for the company. But Ignatchenko said this was "a legend created for him by the CIA." The Times could not locate any firm with this name.
"We even have a picture here of his house. It is very [big]. Then he buys a few more houses. So he had quite a sufficient income there," Ignatchenko said.
Times staff writers Alexei V. Kuznetsov and Sergei L. Loiko contributed to this report.
Yes. He has.
Sorry to see you go, but GOOD-BYE!
We don't need clintonistas in the CIA.
You are tripping over your ego.
Like it or not Peter Goss is running the CIA and President Bush has been re-elected to run this country.
Get over it.
Goss needs to clean house, and if some of the "good" one chose to go, so be it -- no one is, or should be, indispensable. If they were really good, they wouldn't have let the bad ones get away with the first term leaks and outright attempts to sway the U.S. Political process.
The same thing needs to take place in the State Department, including those of the past Diplomatic Corp. They all seem to lean to far left - and otherwise in most cases their approach seems wrong.
No. I have read a lot of the Russian press and put it together.
There is more about Kappes in the Russian press because the Russian intelligence tried to mock him after they finally caught the agent he ran for 18 years. The agent worked for the Russian intelligence and was pretty high up. That is quite an achievement.
Of course, really the Russians were the ones who slipped up. So they put out a lot of information to make themselves look cool. The thing is, this man may have given us Hanssen.
The Russian was stationed in Ethiopia (I think) and was an expert in an obscure African language. He would have known a lot about the situation with Islamic fundamentalism there. The Russians are pretty up on that.
Then this Russian Intelligence officer--see my English posts--moved to Buenos Aires. He was recruited there, as the Russians tell it, by drinking Scotch whisky. That is the preferred drink of Imperialism's secret agents, according to the Russians. (of course, this is the official Russian Intelligence version and they are trying to make themselves look really smart so they can get more money for their agency.)
If you read Russian, there is a lot on this at www.rambler.ru
Heck, we see how many trees were willingly killed to provide the pulp for John Kerry's bio that waxed to the Brink', boldly-yet-nuanced, after Kerry's mere 4 and 1/2 months in Vietnam--apart from certain, stubborn facts becoming known, e.g., some the SBVT knew.
HF
bttt
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