CIA can't find enough smart people - starts training recruits at infancy

[Mort Zuckerman]

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Subject: CIA can't find enough smart people - starts training recruits
at infancy

Date: Oct 28, 2008 6:24 PM

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Well, the fact that we don't have enough smart people
to run the intelligence agencies has been obvious for
years. To Wit: A vaccine for Relapsing Fever:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BARBOUR_MUTANTS_1992.htm

???

And Eddie Da Sweeg and Psycho Durland dare to call *us*
"crazy."

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_frm/thread/d18f54ad3e14301f/054b6873a1232bc8?hl=en

64.252.3.250
The IP of that posts locates to New Haven; Durland Fish tells
me not to "mess with Yale and the federal government."

A person might wonder why some psychopath entomologist who
thinks we should vaccinate wild mice with a vaccine that
never worked in humans would be an author of any guidelines
on the non-treatment of a non-disease for which we should
all should be vaccinated, but also, be advising me I was
messing with "Yale and the federal govt."

Is there supposed to be a relationship?

Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/washington/29intel.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Besides the C.I.A.’s hugely expensive operations in Afghanistan and
Iraq, where
the agency is currently operating in Baghdad its largest overseas
outpost since
the Vietnam War, the C.I.A. is also trying to follow through on a
presidential order
to expand the ranks of its clandestine service by 50 percent.

In part because of the cost of this initiative, which requires
recruiting and training
new officers and building up the C.I.A’s infrastructure abroad,
intelligence officials
said ***the agency was still several years from meeting the goal set
by the White
House.***
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October 29, 2008
Intelligence Agencies Face Austerity
By MARK MAZZETTI

WASHINGTON — The steep buildup in government spending on intelligence
programs continued
over the past year, according to figures made public on Tuesday, but
American intelligence
agencies are also bracing for a new era of austerity.

Spending on intelligence operations increased by some 9 percent last
year, to $47.5
billion, Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, said
on Tuesday.
That figure includes most intelligence spending, including the budget
for the National
Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the operations of
spy satellites,
but it does not include several billions that the military services
spend annually
on intelligence operations.

When the military spending is included, the new figure confirms that
the American
intelligence budget has doubled over the past decade, primarily to
meet the demands
of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a worldwide campaign against Al
Qaeda. In 1998,
the last time until 2007 that the intelligence budget was publicly
disclosed, it
stood at $26.7 billion; at that time, there were more F.B.I. agents
working in New
York City than C.I.A. officers operating around the world.

The size of the 2009 budget, under which the intelligence agencies are
currently
operating, remains classified.

Yet current and former intelligence officials said that some belt
tightening has
already begun because of the current economic crisis, and that further
large increases
in the budget are unlikely, no matter who becomes the next president.
They said
discussions currently under way to determine the 2010 budget reflect
White House
demands for greater spending restraint.

“Everyone senses we’re reaching the end of growth for the intelligence
budget,”
said Mark M. Lowenthal, a former top C.I.A. official and Congressional
intelligence
staff member.

Mr. Lowenthal said the intelligence budget might be vulnerable to cuts
in future
years, and could be more politically vulnerable than the budget for
homeland security,
which contains dozens of pork barrel projects that lawmakers are loath
to part with.

The Bush administration for years refused to disclose the amount that
the United
States spends annually to run C.I.A. states overseas, operate
satellites and on
other intelligence activities, saying that revealing the budget would
give too much
information to America’s enemies. But members of Congress, acting on a
recommendation
by the Sept. 11 commission, passed a law in 2007 requiring that the
director of
national intelligence disclose the intelligence budget within 30 days
of the end
of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

Besides the C.I.A.’s hugely expensive operations in Afghanistan and
Iraq, where
the agency is currently operating in Baghdad its largest overseas
outpost since
the Vietnam War, the C.I.A. is also trying to follow through on a
presidential order
to expand the ranks of its clandestine service by 50 percent.

In part because of the cost of this initiative, which requires
recruiting and training
new officers and building up the C.I.A’s infrastructure abroad,
intelligence officials
said the agency was still several years from meeting the goal set by
the White House.