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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 14. maj 2004 / Time Line May 14, 2004
Version 3.005/14/2004
Thule-aftale næsten klar
USA, Grønland og Danmark er meget tæt på en
aftale, der gør det muligt for USA at videreudvikle
radaranlægget på Thule til brug i et missilforsvar.
Den amerikanske regering er opsat på en snarlig
løsning, angiveligt helst inden 28. maj.
Baggrunden er blandt andet, at præsident George W. Bush i sin
2000-valgkamp lovede den amerikanske befolkning et missilskjold i
2004. Thule-radaren er ikke afgørende for dette
løfte, men for Bush ville en aftale være et konkret
tegn på fremskridt, skriver Jyllands-Posten.
05/14/2004
Torture prison pictures triggered reforms for the CIA
By Kurt Singer
The deputy director for foreign operations James L Pavitt anounced
that he would double the CIA's foreign agents. At the moment in
2004 the agency emplyes 1100 secret operatives spread around the
world. 41% speak a second language but only 4% each speak Arabic or
Chinese. This explains why American intelligence officers cannot
even read the street names in Iraq and Afghanistan.Mr. Pavitt also
told the press that the CIA no longer calls its agents intelligence
officers but case workers.The espionage training school at Camp
Peary in Virginia is working 24 hours around the clock. Arabic is
taught in Blitz Courses to new recruits at a yearly salary of
$50.000 a year. Mr.Pavitt said "WE NEED THOUSAND AND HUNDRED
THOUSAND OF PEOPLE TO WIN THIS WAR."Then he admitted " we are
running hard to meet the resources we need." Inspite of having been
successful in capturing several dozen of militant terrorists and
suicide bombers he CIA had many failures as well. They did not
prevent the actions of the 19 terrorists on 9/11, or prevent the
attack on the Cole or the bombings of the embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania nor did they caspture Ben Laden. Their clandestine
activities need definite improvements.The last thing they needed
were the 1000 plus torture pictures from a Baghdad prison.One of
the American reporters said jokingly" the CIA has now more nude
pictures than the Clinton administration showed."
The CIA had failed to predict or realize the comingdownfall of the
Soviet Union. After the demise of the Soviet empire the agency was
reduced by 20 % in panpower and budget.
Cold War espionage veterans are still teachers at Camp Peary and
use now Mao Tse Tung's book on Guerilla Warfare.To fight an
invisible terrorist enemy Mr. George J.Tenet, Mr. Pavitt's boss as
director of the CIA said the organization has to be streamlined and
moved from an unbelievable low situation into a high tech
scientific clandestine espionage and counter terrorist agency.
The revalry between CIA and FBI had to be ended.
A revamped and modernized CIA is aware that they are threatened
daily by Al Qaeda terrorists and suicide bombers who seem almost
invisible and replaced by unlimited masses of Muslims who hate the
American occupiers and their allies and above all the Western
infidels. Some time ago I asked a high ranking CIA officer who he
though hat the best acurate, imaginative and long period
visionara\y intelligence service. He answered without hesitance:
The Vatican.
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