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Cover |
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Cover |
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03/15/2006 |
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People high enough up the food chain don't care for fixing the blatant ineffectiveness of cover because it's irrevocably tied to organizational reform. And when you have a performance management system that disregards any metric of effectiveness and pays based on seniority, people on the front lines are not going to care either. Or your attrition is going to veer up and ex-employees start publishing angry books.
Btw, that recent AEI book about the future of intelligence definitely has some good cover theories to chew on. I'd still recommend organizational studies of the compliance and incentive systems of other, more effective agencies as a starting point to some conclusive reform. We're not the only ones in this game. |
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Not to deny the fact that the CIA needs to do a better job with cover for it's employees or operations (as the events in Milan have shown), but the author of the article you posted is a failed case officer with much to complain about.
Reuel Marc Gerecht's failures as a case officer have been noted in many articles and books that have been published. He even wrote a book about his exploits in the middle east under a pen name, where he describes how he sneaked into Iran in the back of a truck across the Iran-Turkish border. He had James Bond fantasies, and eventually found that he wasn't cut for the real work of an intellifence officer. I have no respect for this guy.
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