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  • Spy Who Turned Tide With Libya Is Brought Back (from self-imposed exile)To Target Teheran

    06/17/2006 7:30:56 PM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 110 replies · 2,686+ views
    Telegraph.co.uk ^ | Filed: 18/06/2006 | Toby Harnden in Washington
    The American spy who persuaded Libya to renounce its weapons of mass destruction is to return to the Central Intelligence Agency, where he will direct an aggressive drive to recruit informants inside Iran to aid possible negotiations over Teheran's nuclear capability. Stephen Kappes, a former United States Marines officer who resigned from the CIA after a clash with its then director, Porter Goss, has been brought back from self-imposed exile in London by George W Bush. Iran will be top of his agenda. "He's a remarkable guy, a talented leader and among the finest officers of his generation," said Gary...
  • Pelosi Critical of Goss Nomination, Despite Earlier Support

    08/11/2004 4:28:18 AM PDT · by kattracks · 14 replies · 534+ views
    CNSNEWS.com ^ | 8/10/04 | Melanie Hunter
    (CNSNews.com) - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi stands opposed to the nomination of Rep. Peter Goss (R-Fla.), an eight-term congressman and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to head the CIA, but just two months ago, Pelosi pledged to support Goss for the position. On Tuesday, Pelosi suggested Goss is too "political" to be named director of the Central Intelligence Agency. "But I will say what I said before is that there shouldn't - a person should not be the director of central intelligence who's acted in a very political way when we're dealing with the safety of the American...