Wednesday, October 14, 2015
"An Innocent Man"
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Die Hard (1988)
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Dwayne T. Robinson: I've got a hundred people down here, and they're covered with glass.
John McClane: Glass? Who gives a shit about glass? Who the fuck is this?
Dwayne T. Robinson: This is Deputy Chief of Police, Dwayne T. Robinson, and I am in charge of this situation.
John McClane: Oh, you're in charge? Well, I got some bad news for you *Dwayne*, from up here it doesn't look like you're in charge of jack shit.
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Die Hard (1988)
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Dwayne T. Robinson: You listen to me, you little asshole, I'm...
John McClane: Asshole? I'm not the one who just got butt-fucked on national TV
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Nation & World: Wednesday, November 08, 2006
By The Associated Press
Bush seemed stoic about the election, proclaiming: "This isn't my first rodeo."
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An Innocent Man (1989)
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Jingles, Con: Don't you ever touch me, you White Mother Fucker! *Ever*!
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Die Hard (1988)
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John McClane: Now, you listen to me, jerk-off, if you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem. Quit being a part of the fucking problem and put the other guy back on!
From 9/21/1941 ( Robert James Woolsey Jr ) To 3/24/1970 ( George Walker Bush was never a pilot qualified or even capable of controlled flight in any jet aircraft of any branch of the United States of America military ) is 10411 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/5/1994 is 10411 days
From 1/13/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Letter to Gordon Gray Designating Him Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board ) To 7/15/1988 ( premiere US film "Die Hard" ) is 10411 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/5/1994 is 10411 days
From 12/10/1948 ( Harry Truman - Statement by the President Upon Designating John R. Steelman Acting Chairman of the National Security Resources Board ) To 5/5/1994 is 16582 days
16582 = 8291 + 8291
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/15/1988 ( premiere US film "Die Hard" ) is 8291 days
From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 5/5/1994 is 8167 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/13/1988 ( John Holmes dead ) is 8167 days
From 7/6/1946 ( George Walker Bush ) To 1/6/1975 ( premiere US TV series "Wheel of Fortune" ) is 10411 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/5/1994 is 10411 days
From 10/6/1989 ( premiere US film "An Innocent Man" ) To 5/5/1994 is 1672 days
1672 = 836 + 836
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/16/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Patterns of Force" ) is 836 days
From 9/10/1984 ( premiere US TV series "Jeopardy" ) To 5/5/1994 is 3524 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/27/1975 ( premiere US TV movie "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" ) is 3524 days
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
Remarks on Legislation To Ban Assault Weapons and an Exchange With Reporters
May 5, 1994
The President. In a few weeks the Congress will pass, and I will be able to sign, landmark legislation to fight crime in this country. Working together we have been able to show that crime is not a partisan issue. It's an American issue, and it requires comprehensive solutions, more punishment, more prevention, more police officers.
This afternoon, the House of Representatives will be considering a key part of that strategy, a law that bans 19 deadly assault weapons that pose a clear and present danger to our citizens and to our police officers. Just 2 years ago, a similar law was defeated by a very wide margin in the House. Now we're a few votes away from a dramatic strike against these deadly weapons and the criminals who use them.
Congressman Steve Neal, in an act of conviction and courage, has joined the ranks of House Members who support our local police and fight for safe neighborhoods, joining forces with law enforcement and standing up to a lot of the misapprehension and fear and misinformation that has been spread by the opponents of this very sensible crime control measure. I want to thank Steve Neal, and the citizens across this country who are concerned about this terrible problem are in his debt.
The vote to keep dangerous assault weapons out of the hands of criminals occurs this afternoon. Members are having to choose and make difficult choices between supporting the local police in their efforts to disarm criminals who can use these weapons to kill lots of people and those who are spreading fears about the reach of this law.
Today, the American people hope and believe that common sense and the common good should prevail. With the help of people like Steve Neal, it will. I'm very grateful to him, and I wanted to give him the chance to say a few words this morning before we have the vote this afternoon.
Congressman.
Representative Steve Neal. Thank you, sir.
The President. Thank you so much.
Representative Neal. Thank you. Well, I would say that the President is right about this. It is the first responsibility of our Government to protect our citizens. There is a war going on on the streets of America, mostly in the big cities, and the police are outgunned. Now they say they need this legislation to help them protect us and our families against violent criminals. So we ought to give them this tool that they say they need to protect us against violence.
Singapore Caning of Michael Fay
Q. Mr. President, what do you think of the caning of the American in Singapore?
The President. I think it was a mistake, as I said before, not only because of the nature of the punishment related to the crime but because of the questions that were raised about whether the young man was, in fact, guilty and had voluntarily confessed.
Q. What are you going to do about it, Mr. President?
The President. Well, we're discussing that, actually, as we speak here, what would be an appropriate statement by our Government in the aftermath of this.
Assault Weapons
Q. [Inaudible]—if the assault ban fails in Congress today, is there any administrative action you could take, say, through the Treasury Department, to ban these weapons yourself in the Executive order or prohibition?
The President. I don't believe we can do that. There may be some things that we can do that will minimize the problem. But I don't think any options that are available to us will be as effective as the ban on these assault weapons.
I do want to say, as I have talked to Members, there are basically two classes of concerns among those who wish to vote for this bill— and I am convinced a majority, if they could vote anonymously, would vote for this bill. And there are two classes of concerns among those people. One is some of the administrative requirements, which we'll circulate a letter today that Congressman Schumer and Mr. Synar and others have worked on to satisfy the people who are worried about the recordkeeping requirements that all those concerns, those practical concerns, can be fixed in the conference report.
The other is the so-called camel's-nose-insidethe-tent theory. A lot of our Members are being told by folks back home that they have been convinced by the opponents of this bill that today it's these assault weapons, which they don't own, and tomorrow it'll be some legitimate hunting weapon, which they do own. Well, that's why the bill contains the list of over 600 specific weapons that are protected. So I hope that we can, in effect, just debunk that, can overcome that argument by the time of the vote this afternoon. Those are the two things I've been hearing.
I was on the phone until about midnight last night. And I've made several calls again this morning working on this issue. And I believe we have a chance. It's very difficult, as you know; we were way, way down when we started and counted out right up until the 11th hour. But we may still have a chance to pass this because people like Steve Neal have been willing to come forward.
Supreme Court Nominee
Q. Mr. President, the Wall Street Journal says that Judge Richard Arnold is now your favorite to become the next Supreme Court Justice. Should he be penalized because he's from Arkansas? Is he your favorite?
The President. Well, first of all, I have no comment on whether I have a favorite or not. And secondly, he shouldn't be penalized because he's from Arkansas. I mean, he was first in his class at Harvard and Yale; he's the chief judge of the 8th Circuit; and he's been head of the Appellate Judges Association. So I don't think anyone would question—it would be difficult to find, just on terms of those raw qualifications, an appellate judge with equal or superior qualifications. I don't think any American would expect someone to be disqualified because they happen to come from my State.
Q. When will we learn about your selection?
The President. Well, there's one or two other things going on here, but we're working on it. We're spending a good deal of time on it. It won't be long.
NOTE: The President spoke at 9:50 a.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House.
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John McClane: So that's is what this is about, Hans? A fucking robbery?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961
8 - Letter to Gordon Gray Designating Him Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board.
January 13, 1960
Dear Mr. Gray:
I hereby designate you Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board, vice Mr. Robert D. Murphy, to perform duties in accordance with Executive Order 10700 dated February 25, 1957, as mended, in addition to your other duties. I know that you are thoroughly familiar with the work of the OCB through your service as a member of the Board since July 1958. In view of your continuing responsibility as the principal supervisory officer of the work of the National Security Council in formulating national security policies including those assigned by me to the OCB for coordination, you are in a position to provide impartial and objective guidance and leadership to the Board.
This new assignment is one step which I feel should be taken toward enabling the President to look to one office for staff assistance in the whole range of national security affairs.
I reiterate the importance I attach to the Board's responsibilities.
Sincerely,
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961
9 - Letter to Karl G. Harr, Jr., Concerning His Duties With the Operations Coordinating Board.
January 13, 1960
Dear Mr. Harr:
I have today designated Mr. Gordon Gray, Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board, vice Mr. Robert D. Murphy. Under this new arrangement I will look to Mr. Gray to give impartial and objective leadership and guidance for the work of the OCB as well as the work of the National Security Council and its Planning Board.
Within the framework of your duties as my Special Assistant, you are requested henceforth to make a special contribution to two major areas of the Operations Coordinating Board's work in addition to continuing to discharge your responsibilities with respect to the normal work of the OCB. The first of these is in taking the lead in initiating new proposals to the Board for actions within the framework of national security policies in response to opportunity and changes in the situation. The second is in placing particular emphasis on seeing that Board actions implementing national security policies contribute fully to the climate of foreign opinion the United States is seeking to achieve in the world.
You will, of course, continue as Vice Chairman of the OCB and I will expect you to continue to present OCB reports to the National Security Council as you have been doing since your appointment as my representative on the Board in
March 1958.
Sincerely,
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
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Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945-1953
284 - Statement by the President Upon Designating John R. Steelman Acting Chairman of the National Security Resources Board.
December 10, 1948
I HAVE asked the Assistant to the President, John R. Steelman, to assume responsibility as Acting Chairman of the National Security Resources Board. He is to undertake the important job of continuing to fit the work of the Board and the activities of its staff into the broader framework of total presidential responsibilities. When farther steps in this direction have been accomplished, it is my intention to designate a successor to relieve Dr. Steelman so that he may again give full time to his regular duties.
The National Security Act of 1947 established the National Security Resources Board as an agency, "to advise the President concerning the coordination of military, industrial, and civilian mobilization." Currently almost one-half of the national budget is directly devoted to national defense and international programs, and the work of nearly all the major units of our Government bears an intimate relation to mobilization problems. Under these conditions, the Board must not only assume the leadership among the Government agencies concerned with mobilization issues, but must also work closely with other presidential staff advisers.
In carrying out this special assignment, Dr. Steelman will work in close cooperation with the departments and agencies and with the Chairman of the National Security Council, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget.
Dr. Steelman's experience as former Director of the United States Conciliation Service, as Director of Economic Stabilization, and as Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion has contributed to his knowledge of mobilization problems and of the role which the Federal Government must play in cooperation with business, labor, civic, and State and local organizational units in such undertakings. He has attended meetings of the Cabinet for the past 3 years and has an intimate knowledge of the governmental policies and activities which will contribute to his performance of this important job.
I am anxious to have close coordination among all departments and agencies concerned with our resources and mobilization issues. Dr. Steelman will have my full backing and that of the Cabinet and other agency heads in fulfilling this difficult task.
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Die Hard (1988)
Release Info
USA 15 July 1988 (limited)
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TRANSCRIPTS
WOLF
Woman Wounded In Second Jerusalem Stabbing Today; Police Kill Knife Attacker At Damascus Gate; Secretary Of State Kerry To Visit Middle East; Live With Lincoln Chafee; First Numbers from CNN's Democratic Debate; Lincoln Chafee Talks Debate. Aired 1-1:30p ET
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BLITZER: All right, let's get some more from some of those who were on the debate floor last night. The Democratic presidential candidate, Lincoln Chafee, is joining us now. He's a former governor of Rhode Island, former U.S. senator from Rhode Island.
Governor, thanks very much for joining us.
Were you -- were you pleased or unpleased with your performance last night?
LINCOLN CHAFEE, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I was certainly unpleased with the amount of time allocated. I had nine minutes out of a two hour debate. And there was some presumption that there would be a fair allocation of time. That didn't turn out to be accurate.
BLITZER: Why are you doing so poorly in all of the polls? You're basically getting closer to zero percent than you are even one percent.
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WOLF
Woman Wounded In Second Jerusalem Stabbing Today; Police Kill Knife Attacker At Damascus Gate; Secretary Of State Kerry To Visit Middle East; Live With Lincoln Chafee; First Numbers from CNN's Democratic Debate; Lincoln Chafee Talks Debate. Aired 1-1:30p ET
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CHAFEE: Well, certainly what happened last night is one indication of how the establishment does not want to hear the anti-war vote. They -- they just gave me nine minutes out of a two-hour debate. And it's the same thing elsewhere getting into the media, whether it's the Sunday shows or the like, it's -- I have a feeling that the establishment doesn't want to hear an anti-war voice.
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TRANSCRIPTS
WOLF
Woman Wounded In Second Jerusalem Stabbing Today; Police Kill Knife Attacker At Damascus Gate; Secretary Of State Kerry To Visit Middle East; Live With Lincoln Chafee; First Numbers from CNN's Democratic Debate; Lincoln Chafee Talks Debate. Aired 1-1:30p ET
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BLITZER: How much money have you raised for your campaign so far?
CHAFEE: Well, I came into the race knowing the reality that Secretary Clinton was going to take all the money essentially. And if there was an insurgent candidate, there might be an opportunity to raise some money. Senator Sanders is that insurgent candidate raising the money. But for the rest of us, it's very difficult. I'm not raising much money. But I do have a budget and I'm living within it.
BLITZER: Because there's some word you've raised maybe $30,000. Is that right?
CHAFEE: Yes, but that's expected. That's totally expected when I got into this race. So I'm not going to raise a lot of money. I set a budget for myself, as I do in public service, and I live within it.
BLITZER: But you know you can't really run a successful campaign in Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina, Nevada, the first four states, with a limited amount of money like that. You have no chance with a limited amount of money like that. You're a sophisticated politician. You had a distinguished career in the Senate. You were elected governor of your home state. Why bother right now? If you have limited money, limited support, why keep going?
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TRANSCRIPTS
WOLF
Woman Wounded In Second Jerusalem Stabbing Today; Police Kill Knife Attacker At Damascus Gate; Secretary Of State Kerry To Visit Middle East; Live With Lincoln Chafee; First Numbers from CNN's Democratic Debate; Lincoln Chafee Talks Debate. Aired 1-1:30p ET
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BLITZER: Here's how two major newspapers reviewed your performance last night. "The Washington Post" titled their article, "how to disappear completely by Lincoln Chafee." "The Boston Globe" called it, "Lincoln Chafee's no-good miserable very bad night."
[13:25:08] Here's what worries me, governor, that, you know, because of your distinguished career, you're going to wind up looking silly if you keep going on like this. At what point will you decide, you know what, there are other things for me to do instead of a futile effort
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Desert News
Bush back on track after DUI flap
By Peter Nicholas
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Published: Sunday, Nov. 5 2000 12:00 a.m. MST
PHILADELPHIA — The Bush campaign's 757 was grounded briefly in St. Louis as mechanics fixed one of the plane's eight brakes. "There's no stopping us now," joked Bush's communications director, Karen Hughes.
In the span of a few hours, the campaign would snag on something far more serious: Thursday's disclosure of a drunken-driving conviction in Bush's past.
By Saturday, the campaign was back on track. Bush aides believed they had patched the problem quickly and neutralized the damage by aggressively raising questions about Democratic "dirty tricks."
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John Holmes
Biography
Date of Birth 8 August 1944, Ashville, Ohio, USA
Date of Death 13 March 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA (AIDS-related illness)
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The Choice 2000
PETER BOYER: George W. made his way at Andover, but not in the fashion that Senator Prescott Bush or George Herbert Walker Bush might have imagined. He did not become senior class president or a star baseball player like his father, but he did discover his own persona: a cheerleader with an antic streak.
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An Innocent Man (1989)
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Virgil Cane: You're not listening to me! Civil rights, brotherly love, all that shit, that gets left at the front gate. Right now you got a problem with Jingles.
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An Innocent Man (1989)
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STAR TREK
Patterns of Force
Star Trek: The Original Series
Episode: TOS 052 - Patterns of Force
Season 2 Ep. 21
Air Date: 02/16/1968
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Die Hard (1988)
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Hans Gruber: [Reading what McClane wrote on the dead terrorist's shirt] "Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."
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Ellington AFB, Tex., March 24, 1970---George Walker Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed. Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics
After his solo, a milestone in the career of any fighter pilot, Lt. Bush couldn't find enough words to adequately express the feeling of solo flight.
Lt. Bush is the son of U.S Representative George Bush, who is a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat of Senator Ralph Yarborough.
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never
not ever; at no time
not at all; absolutely not
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incapable
not having the necessary ability, qualification, or strength to perform some specified act or function
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William J. Clinton
Biography -- William J. Clinton
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in an automobile accident. In high school, he took the name of his step father, Roger Clinton of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Bill Clinton graduated from Georgetown University and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. He received a law degree from Yale in 1973.
In 1975, Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham, whom he had met while a law student at Yale.
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Cambridge Five
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The Cambridge Five were a ring of spies, recruited in part by Soviet scout Arnold Deutsch in the United Kingdom, who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and at least into the early 1950s. Four members of the ring have been identified: Kim Philby (cryptonym: Stanley), Donald Duart Maclean (cryptonym: Homer), Guy Burgess (cryptonym: Hicks) and Anthony Blunt (cryptonym: Johnson); jointly they are known as the Cambridge Four.
The term "Cambridge" in the name Cambridge Five refers to the recruitment of the group during their education at Cambridge University in the 1930s. The four known members all attended the university, as did the alleged fifth man. Debate surrounds the exact timing of their recruitment by Soviet intelligence; Anthony Blunt claimed that they were not recruited as agents until they had graduated. Blunt, a Fellow of Trinity College, was several years older than Burgess, Maclean, and Philby; he acted as a talent-spotter and recruiter for most of the group save Burgess.
Several people have been suspected of being the "fifth man" of the group; John Cairncross (cryptonym: Liszt) was identified as such by Oleg Gordievsky, though many others have also been accused of membership in the Cambridge ring. Both Blunt and Burgess were members of the Apostles, an exclusive and prestigious society based at Trinity and King's Colleges. Cairncross was also an Apostle. Other Apostles accused of having been the "fifth man" or otherwise spied for the Soviets include Michael Whitney Straight, Victor Rothschild and Guy Liddell.
Maclean and Burgess
All four were active during World War II, to various degrees of success. Philby, when he was posted in the British embassy in Washington, DC, after the war, learned that US and British intelligence were searching for a British embassy mole (cryptonym Homer) who was passing information to the Soviet Union, relying on material uncovered by VENONA.
Philby learned one of the suspects was Maclean. Realizing he had to act fast, he ordered Burgess, who was also on the embassy staff and living with Philby, to warn Maclean in England, where he was serving in the Foreign Office headquarters. Burgess was recalled from the United States due to "bad behaviour" and upon reaching London, warned Maclean.
In early summer 1951, Burgess and Maclean made international headlines by disappearing. Their whereabouts were unclear for some time and the suspicion that they had defected to the Soviet Union turned out to be correct, but was not made public until 1956 when the two appeared at a press conference in Moscow.
It was obvious they had been tipped off and Philby quickly became the prime suspect, due to his close relations with Burgess. Though Burgess was not supposed to defect at the same time as Maclean, he went along. It has been claimed that the KGB ordered Burgess to go to Moscow. This move damaged Philby's reputation, with many speculating that had it not occurred, Philby could have climbed even higher in the Secret Intelligence Service.
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At Height of Vietnam, Bush Picks Guard
By George Lardner Jr. and Lois Romano
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 28, 1999; Page A1
Fourth of seven articles
Two weeks before he was to graduate from Yale, George Walker Bush stepped into the offices of the Texas Air National Guard at Ellington Field outside Houston and announced that he wanted to sign up for pilot training.
It was May 27, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War. Bush was 12 days away from losing his student deferment from the draft at a time when Americans were dying in combat at the rate of 350 a week. The unit Bush wanted to join offered him the chance to fulfill his military commitment at a base in Texas. It was seen as an escape route from Vietnam by many men his age, and usually had a long waiting list.
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Central Intelligence Agency
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the U.S. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world
Aldrich Ames
See also: Aldrich Ames
Between 1985 and 1986 the CIA lost every spy it had in Eastern Europe. The details of the investigation into the cause was obscured from the new Director, and the investigation had little success, and has been widely criticized. In June 1987, Major Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, the chief of Cuban Intelligence in Czechoslovakia drove into Vienna, and walked into the American Embassy to defect. He revealed that every single Cuban spy on the CIA payroll was a double agent, pretending to work for the CIA, but secretly still being loyal to Castro. On February 21, 1994, FBI agents pulled Aldrich Ames out of his Jaguar. If there was a posterboy for failing upwards inside the CIA, he was it. In the investigation that ensued, the CIA discovered that many of the sources for its most important analyses of the USSR were based on soviet disinformation fed to the CIA by controlled agents. On top of that, it was discovered that, in some cases, the CIA suspected at the time that the sources were compromised, but the information was sent up the chain as genuine. This prompted a congressional committee in 1994 to address what was widely seen as a fundamentally broken institution. The committee quickly became a quagmire. When the committee submitted its toothless report, the CIA had 25 recruits entering its 2 year training program. The smallest class of recruits ever. The CIA was dying a slow death on life support. As it had for most of its existence, the CIA suffered from poor management, poor morale, and a lack of employees familiar with the people they were spying on.
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Aldrich Ames
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aldrich Hazen Ames is an American who was convicted of espionage against his country in 1994.
CIA response
In late 1986, the CIA assembled a team to investigate the source of the leaks. The team, led by Paul Redmond and consisting of Jeanne Vertefeuille and four other investigators, examined different possible causes, including the possibilities that the KGB had either bugged the agency, intercepted its communications, or placed a mole.
By 1990, the CIA was certain that there was a mole in the agency and recruitment of new Soviet agents came to a virtual halt from fear that the agency could not protect its current assets.
Prior to this, in November 1989, a fellow employee reported that Ames seemed to be enjoying a lifestyle well beyond the means of a CIA officer and that his wife's family was less wealthy than he had claimed. Nevertheless, the CIA moved slowly. When the investigator assigned to Ames's finances began a two-month training course, no one immediately replaced him. Investigators were also diverted by a false story from a CIA officer abroad who claimed that the Soviets had penetrated the CIA with an employee born in the USSR.
In 1986 and 1991, Ames passed two polygraph examinations while spying for the Soviet Union and Russia, respectively. Ames was initially "terrified" at the prospect of taking the test, but he was advised by the KGB "to just relax". Ames's test demonstrated deceptive answers to some questions but the examiners passed him, perhaps in the later opinion of the CIA because the examiners were "overly friendly" and therefore did not induce the proper physiological response.
The CIA finally focused on Ames after it realized that despite a salary of only $60,000, Ames had been able to afford:
A $540,000 house in Arlington, Virginia, paid for in cash;
A $50,000 Jaguar automobile;
Home remodeling and redecoration costs of $99,000;
Monthly phone bills exceeding $6,000, mostly calls by Ames's wife to her family in Bogotá, Colombia;
Tailored suits that replaced Ames's former "bargain basement" clothes, conspicuously finer than those of his CIA colleagues; and
Premium credit cards whose minimum monthly payment exceeded his monthly salary.
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Aldrich Ames
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aldrich Hazen Ames is an American who was convicted of espionage against his country in 1994.
Espionage
Ames routinely assisted another CIA office that assessed Soviet embassy officials as potential intelligence assets. As part of this responsibility, and with the knowledge of both the CIA and the FBI, Ames began making contacts within the Soviet Embassy. In April 1985, Ames provided information to the Soviets that he believed was "essentially valueless" but that would establish his credentials as a CIA insider. He also asked for $50,000, which the Soviets quickly paid.
Ames later claimed that he had not prepared for more than the initial "con game" to satisfy his immediate indebtedness, but once having "crossed a line," he "could never step back." Ames soon identified more than ten top-level CIA and FBI sources who were reporting on Soviet activities. Not only did Ames believe that there was "as much money as [he] could ever use" in betraying these intelligence assets, but their elimination would also reduce the chance of his own espionage being discovered.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:18 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 14 October 2015
