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From: Phil Dragoo
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Subject: O'Neil credited w/Boland

Intelligence, N. 113, 13 March 2000, p. 16

http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence/readme/113sum
USA

"GET DEUTCH" & "GET O'NEIL" AT THE CIA

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On 10 March, the press announced that Terry R. Ward, the
highest-ranking CIA official fired in a 1995 scandal for
failing to inform Congress about human rights abuses in
Guatemala will be awarded one of the agency's highest honors
later this month. Ward, 62, former chief of the agency's Latin
American Division, will reportedly receive the prestigious
Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal on 23 March,
recommended by former colleagues within the CIA Directorate of Operations (DO) and personally approved "without hesitation" by James Pavitt, the CIA deputy director for operations, even though the award is controversial.

This is no coincidence, since it was Deutch who fired Ward and turned the DO over to David Cohen, a veteran analyst who had little background in espionage or covert action, and therefore was disliked by DO Cold Warriors. Deutch reportedly also made lasting enemies among CIA "Old Boys" by giving away a "CIA crown jewel", the National Photographic Interpretation Center, to help create a new Pentagon intelligence agency, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Deutch's choice for CIA general counsel, Michael O'Neil, was criticized and is also currently targeted by the "Old Boy" network and die-hard Cold Warriors because he is a liberal former Senate staffer who is considered by some conservatives to be the author of the so-called Boland
amendment which prohibited US assistance to the Nicaraguan
Contras in the 1980s ... and Guatemala, with its CIA-associated death squads is just around the corner.
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