[archy]

The CIA officially has recogonized only 78 losses since the company's inception, 1947. Pretty good record

Of course the question is, how many of those were the fault of the CIA's own blundering...and how many others may have gone unnoticed or unreported. I know firsthand of the death of one CIA spook written off as an *accident* that was due to hostile action, and there've almost certainly been others.

A hundred? two hundred? five hundred, a thousand? I shouldn't be a bit surprised.

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[surfer]

I disagree with the premise of this article and in fact if he did create a mass suicide then we should use that technique everywhere! Just a few less scumbags that we have to deal with. Yes I am quite aware of the "unofficial" toll but they are a necessary evil in this politically run world and those boys are out there many times with no backup and no recoginition and they usually have to do the crap that no one else would ever want to do...intelligence is a lonely world...

[fliberman]

I can think of 58,000 CIA "assets" who died in Viet Nam.