As Woolsey Struggles, CIA Suffers; Director Finds Himself at Odds With Capitol Hill, White House Series: CIA-RESTRUCTURE Series Number: 2/2 From: The Washington Post | Date: May 10, 1994| Author: R. Jeffrey Smith | Copyright 1994 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

CIA Director R. James Woolsey first ruffled feathers on Capitol Hill last May during closed testimony when he sternly instructed senators - pointer in hand - how their budget cuts had "decimated" the spy agency's operations and would have to be reversed.

Woolsey subsequently tussled with lawmakers over the CIA's critical appraisal of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the CIA's insistence on keeping secret the total size of the U.S. intelligence budget and Woolsey's d...

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