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To: RON BL who wrote (198854)	11/1/2001 11:31:39 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769667

What do you think happened to these assets? BusinessWeek Online DAILY BRIEFING: Toppling the Taliban: "The Afghans Can Do It" Daily Briefing: NEWSMAKER Q&A Robert C. ``Bud'' McFarlane once was National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Now he's working on behalf of deposed Afghan King Mohammed Zahir Shah, who was forced out of Afghanistan in 1973 in a Soviet-backed coup. After almost three decades, McFarlane and others are trying to get the 86-year-old King back into play. This was a huge intelligence failure. It stems from not developing the resource that we knew 25 years ago [would be] needed to deal with these problems: human intelligence. Twenty-five years ago a conscious decision was made in the Carter Administration to cut off our human connection in the Middle East. Six hundred assets -- spies -- were severed.... Overcoming that is just going to take time. biz.yahoo.com