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As MIM reported on May 7th on its web page, there is a heady intra-CIA struggle that has gone on under the Bu$h administration that is coloring much of the fake politics going on in the united $tates. The first victory of the career bureaucrats was the Pentagon's arranging a symbolic victory for Ray McGovern in front of network news. The second victory is the outright return of a CIA official as deputy director--the number two position in the hierarchy. It goes to show the old saying in intelligence and mafia circles: there is no such thing as ex-CIA.
Stephen Kappes resigned from the CIA when Bu$h point-man Goss took over and exacerbated intra-intelligence infighting. Now Kappes is going to be number two at the CIA--a promotion. MIM said this on May 7th:
"Staging of the heckling incident would have one purpose--to salvage the reputation of career officers and agencies at the expense of officials that everyone knows are gone or about to leave in 2008 at the latest. Rumsfeld's replies to McGovern stressed how Colin Powell spent weeks at CIA. The point is that Powell is gone from the administration. Soon Rumsfeld will be too. Then CIA can point to this incident, the departure of Goss and the budget situation to say that it was never on board with Bush and all those actions so damaging to intelligence ties and u.$. credibility globally."(1)
National Public Radio reported on Kappes correctly:
"When Kappes stormed out of the agency in November of 2004, dissatisfied with the leadership of Porter Goss, his departure sparked an exodus of senior CIA officials.""Kappes spent 25 years at the CIA -- most of it undercover, much of it in the Middle East."
What a coincidence--Kappes spent much of his career on Iran work. No doubt he had deep ties with people around the globe as he headed up the imperialists' struggle in Iran.
On June 4th, Time Magazine finally got around to reporting it MIM's way: "'Claim a win for the bureaucracy at the CIA.'"(2)
Some of MIM's critics are tied to Kappes. Readers should ask themselves why these other critics did not report this CIA story correctly and apparently could not see what was happening.
The win for the career bureaucrats comes as nothing happening in Iraq or elsewhere is bolstering the credibility of U.$. intelligence. Bu$h's approval rating is down in the low 30 percent range and so the decision came down for increasing imperialist unity. We can always hope that one day the CIA would find itself abolished or gone by attrition, but MIM's May 7th article presented the realistic truth. MIM's critics on this score are avoiding the truth for a reason.
There will be more rounds of intra-intelligence infighting. It's important not to take U.$. politics on international questions too seriously as much of it revolves around security and intelligence factionalism. Those inside u.$. borders may be used to the facts, but readers globally should beware.
Notes:
1. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5448332
2. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1200772,00.html