Okay, this is bad. Just how were they exposed? Mistake? Carelessness? Double agent? Obama?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111121/D9R53CD80.html
“The CIA was well aware the spies were vulnerable in Lebanon. CIA officials were warned, including the chief of the unit that supervises Hezbollah operations from CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and the head of counterintelligence. It remains unclear whether anyone has been or will be held accountable in the wake of this counterintelligence disaster or whether the incident will affect the CIA’s ability to recruit assets in Lebanon.”
obama IS a double agent.
LLS
We’ll probably never know the truth just like everything else in this dark
administration. Where’s Holder by the way?
torture
But others inside the American intelligence community say sloppy "tradecraft" -- the method of covert operations -- by the CIA is also to blame for the disruption of the vital spy networks.
In Beirut, two Hezbollah double agents pretended to go to work for the CIA. Hezbollah then learned of the restaurant where multiple CIA officers were meeting with several agents, according to the four current and former officials briefed on the case. The CIA used the codeword "PIZZA" when discussing where to meet with the agents, according to U.S. officials. Two former officials describe the location as a Beirut Pizza Hut. A current US official denied that CIA officers met their agents at Pizza Hut.
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[LA replies: Multiple CIA case officers were all meeting with their respective agents in the same location? This passes belief. And, completing the picture of Virgil Starkwell-like incompetence, they all met with their agents in a Pizza Hut and used “PIZZA” as their code word for that location? What else did they do? Walk into the Pizza Hut wearing funny hats that said, “CIA Case Officer” and “CIA Agent”?]