[Cincinatus' Wife]

Another intelligence analyst:

In Castro s Service: The undertold story of Cuba s spying, and terror ***EDITOR'S NOTE: On Tuesday, March 19, a high-level Defense Intelligence Agency analyst pleaded guilty to espionage on behalf of Fidel Castro's Cuba. Ana Belen Montes was arrested last September, and now has told officials that she spied for 16 years, starting in 1985. She did not receive compensation for her services, but volunteered them because of her strong opposition to U.S. policy toward Cuba. In the November 5, 2001 issue of NR, John J. Miller described the Montes case in detail, as well as the underappreciated problem of Cuban espionage in the United States and its links to international terrorism.***

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***....In 1992 or 1993, she pulled off what seemed to be an intelligence coup. She traveled to Cuba and interviewed Cuban generals about economic reforms on the island. In 1998, she played an important role in drafting a widely cited analysis that found that Cuba's much diminished military posed no strategic threat to the United States. As recently as the week before last, she briefed top Pentagon policy-makers on Cuba.

According to the FBI affidavit, Montes, who had a high-level security clearance, spied for Cuba for at least five years, and possibly longer. She identified at least one U.S. undercover agent to the Cubans, disclosed a top-secret intelligence-gathering program and reported on U.S. training in the Caribbean, the FBI said.

Current and former U.S. officials say she was in a position to tell have told Havana virtually everything the intelligence community knew about Cuba's military and might even have disclosed U.S. contingency plans for taking the island by force.

"I would think, if damage was done, it would be about what she learned about the U.S., how it was militarily prepared vis-a-vis Cuba," said Richard Nuccio, who was President Bill Clinton's special adviser on Cuba. *** Source

[traderrob6]

Here we go....the trashing begins

[livius]

''The [analyst's] information was bad, not just on Cuba, but on Latin America, too,'' said Reich. ``He was wrong on Haiti, Colombia and Venezuela.''

This might explain a few things.

[Semper Paratus]

Given what we now know about the CIA, a lot more visits to knock heads were called for.

[Dilbert56]

Three investigations - David Kay's, the Senate Select Committee's and the Presidential Commission all went to extraordinary lengths to determine is political pressure influenced intelligence assessments on Iraq. All three found the opposite to be true. Hundreds of analysts were asked multiple times if they were pressured and they said no.

The idiot "reporting" this story works in a lie that has been proven untrue to take one cheap shot at the President and another at Bolton.

SARCASM
Yes, we've all forgotten just how sacred the CIA's analysis is. Can't taint it with outside information. /SARCASM.