Saturday, June 21, 2008
Lots of spys - but on whose side?
Well, we've all read our share of spy novels.
That being said, this idea is certainly plausible...
That being said, this idea is certainly plausible...
I saw this in a Washington Post article by Joseph Weisberg late last year:
"Intelligence from almost all CIA assets is unreliable for the simple reason that so many of them are double agents, meaning that the CIA recruited them but that they are being controlled by their own countries' intelligence services. When I worked at CIA headquarters in the early 1990s, I once suggested to a friend who worked in counterintelligence that up to a third of all CIA agents could be doubles. He said the number was probably much higher."
