We have a CIA right? Do they do anything???
Check this out, from the link;
According to an unattributed account in the book One Point Safe, the Chechen government of Dzhokar Dudayev reportedly warned the US government in the summer of 1994 that it had two tactical nuclear weapons and that they would transfer them to Libya if the United States did not recognize Chechnya's independence. Dudayev reportedly provided sufficiently convincing technical details that the United States (with Russian acquiescence) sent an undercover team to visit Chechnya, where they were to be shown the weapons. After the weapons failed to materialize, however, the team departed. If this account is accurate it clearly indicates US government concern over possible warhead theft, and foreshadowed subsequent reports of a "Chechen bomb."36
One of the most detailed such reports appeared in the extremist newspaper Zavtra in October 1995, which published an interview with an alleged former Chechen intelligence agent who claimed to have purchased two “portable” nuclear weapons in Estonia in 1992.37 This account, and others like it, is not very credible, since the Chechen fighters do not appear to have publicly announced that they had a nuclear weapon, which would seem strange given the extreme methods which were used by both sides during the conflict. Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev did threaten to use radioactive isotopes as a radiological weapon, and even buried a container of cesium-137 in a Moscow park in November 1995 as a demonstration of this capability.38 Basayev and other Chechen commanders also threatened to attack Russian nuclear power plants. While these threats could be regarded as "nuclear terrorism," they did not involve nuclear weapons. In fact, in a July 1995 interview with the Moscow daily Segodnya, Basayev explicitly denied having nuclear weapons.39
I keep hoping that the CIA is just a cover organization - the public face of American intelligence that exists only for public consumption and that somewhere out there is a real intelligence agency without a name, without an official headquarters, without a public budget and without a bunch of lilly livered bureaucrats screwing up everything they try to do.
I guy can hope can't he?
Two points, unrelated and perhaps not germane. First, I hear--posted on FR, I think--that we have several or many heroes in the military and CIA whom we will never hear of. They have died in this country and off our Eastern Coast, barely making it in time to stop detonations.
Second, right now, I am so depressed with the N.O. thing--right, it was local and state debacles, but it was also federal debacle, except for the Coast Guard--that I have no confidence in any government agency except the military. Fair warning: I have not had confidence in any government agency except the military in a long, long time.