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To: Sully- who wrote (17796)	3/12/2006 10:20:25 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Internet Blows CIA Cover By Marc Schulman on United States AMERICAN FUTURE The Chicago Tribune's John Crewdson is on a roll. Four days ago, he reported on the classified German document about the 9/11 hijackers telephone calls to Saudi Arabia and Syria in the months before the attacks. Today, in another blockbuster story, Crewdson reports on how the Internet is blowing the CIA's cover: <<< When the Tribune searched a commercial online data service, the result was a virtual directory of more than 2,600 CIA employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret CIA facilities around the United States. Only recently has the CIA recognized that in the Internet age its traditional system of providing cover for clandestine employees working overseas is fraught with holes, a discovery that is said to have "horrified" CIA Director Porter Goss. "Cover is a complex issue that is more complex in the Internet age," said the CIA's chief spokeswoman, Jennifer Dyck. "There are things that worked previously that no longer work. Director Goss is committed to modernizing the way the agency does cover in order to protect our officers who are doing dangerous work." Dyck declined to detail the remedies "since we don't want the bad guys to know what we're fixing." [ . . . ] The Tribune is not disclosing the identities of any of the CIA employees uncovered in its database searches, the searching techniques used or other details that might put agency employees or operatives at risk. The CIA apparently was unaware of the extent to which its employees were in the public domain until being provided with a partial list of names by the Tribune. [ . . . ] Not all of the 2,653 employees whose names were produced by the Tribune search are supposed to be working under cover. More than 160 are intelligence analysts, an occupation that is not considered a covert position, and senior CIA executives such as Tenet are included on the list. But an undisclosed number of those on the list—the CIA would not say how many—are covert employees, and some are known to hold jobs that could make them terrorist targets. >>> Needless to say, this is very distrurbing. americanfuture.net chicagotribune.com chicagotribune.com

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