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To: JohnM who wrote (45849)	9/21/2002 3:45:42 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) of 281500

I gather you love books on the intelligence community. Yes, I do. The problem I am having is that the most recent ones chronicle our failure on 9/11, and I get disgusted reading them. I find the ones on early days to be the most interesting. Our "Jedburgh" guys in WWII were real heroes. Bill Casey, Singlaub, and Colby were three of the best known. CB got pissed at me today for "ragging" on the Lawyers involved in these organizations. I guess it hit home. :^) I really don't blame any individual. The major problem is organizational, and it looks inescapable. The main "Secrets" they keep are the secrets of failure. The "Early Days" of the OSS were successful in large part because of lack of Bureaucracy and the Patriotism of the times. I glanced over the Powers piece and will spend some time this afternoon on it. Thanks for finding it. I am going to have to research all the "Online" pieces of the "NY Review of Books." Just too good to miss.

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