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Exclusive Book Excerpt: 'Sabotage' Part 3 -- CIA operatives stayed safe in Green Zone as violence grew
Rowan Scarborough, The Examiner Jul 18, 2007 1:25 PM (887 days ago)WASHINGTON In a speech in Dallas in the spring of 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a former CIA director, provided a glimpse into the Clinton years. 'By the mid-1990s, recruitment of new case officers at CIA had hit a historic low, and the agency's funding was a prime target for budget-cutters,' he said. 'Indeed, within three years of my retirement in 1993, CIA's clandestine service had been cut by 30 percent - just when Osama bin Laden was gearing up his war on the United States.'
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