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Two Cold War survivors CIA opens old files and new doors
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Live, from the nation's capital. it's the CIA!
With the Cold War over, the Central Intelligence Agency is suddenly warming to the idea of telling the American public what it's about — even putting its chief, James Woolsey, on prime-time TV to take view calls.
Americans have long been suspicious of the CIA, but when was the last time ordinary folks had a chance to call the spy agency's top guy and put him on the spot?
Probably never.
Woolsey recently had appeared on PBS's "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" and was featured in an NBC News look inside the CIA's suburban Washington headquarters. But his stint Tuesday evening on CNN's "Larry King Live" went a step further, putting the spymaster in the line of fire from viewers around the globe.
The groundwork for the CLA's new effort at openness was laid in April in an internal task force report that examined ways of making the agency more visible.
tions were mostly of the friendly, glad-you-asked that variety. A man from Huntsville, Ala., for example, asked Woolsey whether the rapid shrinking of the U.S. military made his job harder.
"Many Americans do not understand the intelligence process" and many "still operate with a romanticized or erroneous view of intelligence from the movies, TV, books and newspapers," the report said. "These views often damage our reputation and make it harder for us to fulfill our mission."
As it turned out, the callers' ques-
The question gave Woolsey a chance to emphasize one of his favorite themes, that the end of the Cold War and the need to reduce the size of the American military makes the intelligence agencies' work more, not less, important.
The exchange with the Huntsville viewer highlighted the fact that the CIA's motivation for becoming more open with the American public goes beyond a sense that the collapse of Soviet communism reduces the need for official secrecy.
An equally important motive is a recognition by Woolsey and other intelligence agency leaders that in order to preserve their budgets they must come in from the cold and sell Congress and the American public on
their value to the nation.
In making his case for the CIA's recent record on lifting the veil from its past practices, Woolsey noted that the agency had decided to declassify materials on many of its most sensitive Cold War-era operations, including the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the 1954 overthrow of the president of Guatemala and covert operations conducted during the 1950-53 Korean War.
NATO searching for a new mission
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium — When the Cold War ended, some assumed that NATO would fade into obscurity and that the millions of dollars spent to support it would be freed up in a "peace dividend."
Wrong.
In fact, spending has gone up, albeit only slightly.
And in a remarkable example of bureaucratic ingenuity, the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization has scrambled to find new work — and extend its lease on life — by developing ties with its former adversaries in Eastern Europe.
So, while some military operations have been scaled back and jobs in weapons divisions and other Cold War issues trimmed. NATO has added
Peace, for some, appears hard to swallow. Once an archemeny is vanquished — in this case, the Warsaw Pact — where do you go from there?
"NATO has a fairly desperate problem of ensuring its own relevance in the world," said Owen Harries, editor of The National Interest, a foreign policy magazine in Washington.
Officials at NATO headquarters outside Brussels are reluctant to say whether the alliance has reduced staff in recent years — or even disclose how many employees still work there. A request for interviews with personnel officials was denied.
The rejection reflects nervousness ahead of this month's meetings of foreign and defense ministers and a January summit where President Clinton
and other leaders are expected to make long-term decisions about NATO.
In 1990, the end of the Cold War, NATO had 1,250 civilian employees at its headquarters. Sources, demanding anonymity, said NATO had cut 5 percent to 7 percent of its staff since then, but they did not know how many people were still employed.
Spending, though, has not declined. The 1994 budget is projected at 4.9 billion Belgian francs, the equivalent of $136 million, up about 1 percent from 190, the sources said.
The extra money is mostly going to the new East European projects, they said. In 1991, the alliance set up the North Atlantic Cooperation Council as a forum for exchanging views with nearly two dozen nations in Eastern Europe.
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