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'ednesday by 89 countries. He
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Jnited States was blocking a global
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se, and by keeping ls h focused on his time as the CIA chief in 1976 and
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hildren.” Itelligence by the press and congressional investigating
|mmittees.
“The entire agency,” Bush said, “was demeaned by the
Jiversally negative press coverage coming from mis-
;es made hy but a handful of people.”
Not far behind the news media were the congression-
m is |av Smith ^ ® nvest 'gators, who examined the admission by the CIA
] at it had conducted surveillance on U.S. citizens op-
ised to the Vietnam War, plotted assassinations and, at
tes, misled Congress about its actions.
"The people of the CIA were roundly insulted by
anti”drueeffortslt J tutoret ^’ aggressive staffers from the two commit-
8 3s in Congress, many, not all, but many of whom
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in,” Bush said. “These crusading young zealots
ated everyone that they encountered as renegades
It best, criminals at worst.”
a land mine treaty. Representatives
of an additional 20 countries were
in Oslo, Norway, for the talks as ob
servers, but without voting rights.
The text calls for a total ban on
production, export and use of anti
personnel mines. The countries are
expected to formally accept the
draft text Thursday, and supporters
hope the actual treaty will be signed
in Ottawa in December.
Land mines kill or maim more
than 25,000 people every year.
Without U.S. support it will be
difficult to incorporate other key
countries — such as Russia, China
and India — that are not a part of
the treaty process.
Still, said Canadian Foreign
Minister Lloyd Axworthy, who
spearheaded the campaign for a
ban, said, “We were not prepared
to pay any price” for Washington’s
approval.
Jan Egeland, deputy Norwegian
foreign minister, predicted that
Clinton will support the treaty. “I
believe internal forces in the United
States will be tremendous,” he said.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., one of
the Senate’s leading proponents of
a land mine ban, criticized Clinton’s
decision. “U.S. policy on land mines
has largely arisen from Congress,
not the White House, and we will
move forward with our legislation
to ban anti-personnel land mines,”
Leahy said.
Both the Senate and House have
passed resolutions urging Clinton
to provide more leadership on the
land mine issue.
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He condemned the “so-called broad-minded academi
cians” who refused to cooperate with the CIA, as well as
“many pusillanimous business people (who) treated CIA
exactly the same way.”
The CIA’s “embattled” Directorate of Operations —
the clandestine spy service—deserves praise, not crit
icism, Bush said, and survived in spite of its many crit
ics, including some who did real damage to U.S. intel
ligence-gathering.
Bush singled out for criticism Philip Agee, a former CIA
agent and later critic of the agency.
“Remember Philip Agee, who I consider a U aitor to our
country?” Bush asked, referring to Agee’s efforts to expose
CIA operations and identify spies.
Bush said some of the criticism of the Directorate
of Operations ruined secret U.S. clandestine opera
tions in foreign countries and, in one instance, blew
the cover of CIA station chief in Greece, Richard
Welch, who was assassinated outside his residence in
Greece in the mid-1970s. Bush was careful not to di
rectly link Agee to Welch’s death. Agee dropped a
defamation suit against former first lady Barbara
Bush earlier this year after Mrs. Bush acknowledged
that the first edition of her memoir was erroneous in
saying that Agee had exposed Welch’s identity.
Striking an oft-repeated theme in a week of celebra
tions at CIA headquarters, Bush said the CIA seldom gets
credit for its successes. Instead, he said, they focus on in
dividual failures, such as the Aldrich Ames spy case, and
try to use them to tear down the agency.
The Stones were right.
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