We didn't see that coming - how CIA missed world's turning points From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: July 29, 2007| Author: | Copyright 2007 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

THE CIA thought it had an intelligence coup on its hands in 1994. Its friends in the Guatemalan military were bugging the bedroom of Marilyn McAfee, the American ambassador in that country, whom they regarded as suspect because she was fighting human rights abuses by the regime.

Eavesdroppers heard her whispering sweet nothings to someone whom they took to be her secretary, another female diplomat - and the CIA set out to undermine Mrs McAfee by spreading rumours in Washington that she was a lesbian.

There was just one problem. The ambassador, who was happily married, was not having an affair ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	How Intelligence got less stupid Contrary to popular belief, says Christopher Andrew, the CIA was a stabilising influence during the Cold War ; ...during the early Cold War on "covert action...tragi-comedy of the CIA-sponsored landings...remained one of the CIA's key roles for the remainder of the Cold War. President Eisenhower...contrast to the KGB, the CIA did more to stabilise...to destabilise the Cold ...
	BACK ON CAMPUS - THE CIA RECRUITERS RETURN WHERE ONCE IT WAS LIKE A LITTLE COLD WAR.(News) ; Back in the CIA's halcyon days at the height of the Cold War, recruiting on college campuses...in 1993, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the CIA shut down its 13 recruitment...denouncements of the 1960s, when ``CIA, off campus!'' was heard. This ...
	NOTEBOOK.(Central Intelligence Agency's cultural activities during Cold War) ; ...book, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of...an instrument of Cold War foreign policy, like...professors acting as CIA recruiting officers...grim a prospect, the CIA adopted the Soviet strategies of Cold War propaganda (how to...
	The East Berlin Tunnel: Whose Ruse?; In Cold War Spy Games, a Coup for the CIA Wasn't All It Seemed ; ...the biggest espionage plots of the Cold War. Soviet and East German forces announced...quarter-mile-long tunnel that the CIA had burrowed into East Berlin as part...Americans and the Soviets during the Cold War," said Bernd Stoever, a historian...
	WITH COLD WAR OVER, CIA FACES MORE HEAT ; ...NJ) 09-29-1991 WITH COLD WAR OVER, CIA FACES MORE HEAT...aloud what purpose the CIA might serve, now that the Cold War has melted. But cloak-and-da...Soviet Union. "The CIA is still principally...fading realities of the Cold War. There is a need for...
	Declassified CIA documents reveal Cold War's final days They show gency was `doubtful' about Gorbachev ; ...final days of the Cold War. They show that...intelligence agencies, the CIA was the most pessimistic...Benjamin Fischer, the CIA analyst who edited...three years of the Cold War -- roughly from November...conference on the Cold War at Texas A&M University...William ...
	CIA IS BACK ON CAMPUSES COLD WAR CHILL MAY BE HISTORY, BUT AGENCY WANTS HOT PROSPECTS.(News/National/International) ; ...Times WASHINGTON -- Back in the CIA's halcyon days at the height of the Cold War, recruiting on college campuses...in 1993, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the CIA shut down its 13 recruitment...I was shocked'' that the CIA was coming to ...
	RONALD REAGON MEMORIALS COLD WAR COMMEMORATION:FRANCIS GARY POWERS JR. FEDERAL DOCUMENT CLEARING HOUSE, INC. ; ...artifacts important to that period; - To interpret the Cold War through research and information gathering; and...information and preservation activities related to the Cold War era. The Museum's distinguished board of directors...management, nonprofit management, and various aspects of ...
	Reagan Buildup at CIA Spawned Current Woes; Security Failures Followed Cold War Successes ; ...the session obtained by a Cold War history project of the Woodrow...Intelligence Agency in the Cold War's closing years. The recruitment...recruited as spies by the CIA in the late 1970s and 1980s...Communism's collapse. But the CIA, protected from Congress and...dozens of past and ...
	Calling the tune? The CIA, the British left and the Cold War ; ...Western Europe during the Cold War. In 1999, for example, the...published a history of the CIA's effort in the `Cultural Cold War', that is the secret struggle...available evidence about the CIA's covert operations during...ideological obedience in the Cold War. This, ...

For more facts and information, see all results