Near East and South Asia office organization
also: Near East branch, Near East area, Near East tribe
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Beef that part up. Thus, in April 1983, analysis by the intelligence Near East and South Asia office that found the Mujahideen incapable of expelling or defeating the Russians made Gates furious. Again, not independent intelligence analyst.…
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a Soviet Vietnam, but they did. That might have been the idea at the White House, and it was. When Howard Hart replaced John Reagan as station chief in Islamabad, Casey's instructions were simply to go out and kill Russians. Hart had won th…
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Hart cabled Langley on January 14, 1982, to put this on the table. Director Casey took the question to Reagan's special group, now called, again a name change, National Security Planning Group. They met in February, according to Robert Gate…
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George, in turn, persuaded William Casey to approve a comrade from the African division, Burt Dunn, to head the Near East. Then came the matter of a task force chief. Alan Friars, the lead candidate, still had a few months to run on a tour …
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had been deputy to Mac Gaffin from the early days and knew all the players, but he was on the wrong side of the new boss, Claire George. Abratosis, Kutos, campaigned for the position, and one day when George was out of town, convinced Assoc…