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...EVERYTHING'S O.K. NOW, RIGHT? Nope. The bottom line is that many of the causes of the intelligence breakdown in Iraq persist and "are still all too common" in American espionage. These include a "poorly coordinated" bureaucracy that failed to question key information from an Iraqi defector who was a "fabricator" known as Curveball. Even today the U.S. "knows disturbingly little about the nuclear programs of many of the world's most dangerous actors," notably Iran and North Korea...
...extensive intelligence ever received from any source." The files revealed the details of many Soviet espionage operations and unmasked kgb agents around the world. Wide-ranging counterespionage operations were mounted, including a lengthy hunt for the alleged asio spy. "This wasn't just another piece of information from a defector," says Canberrabased intelligence expert Des Ball. "This happened to be the first categoric information that the KGB had in fact penetrated asio," he says. An asio translator, George Sadil, was charged in 1993 with offenses relating to espionage and the exposure of official secrets. He pleaded guilty only to removing...
...take over the task of building paradise on earth. But North Koreans, who these days prefer to get their drama from pirated South Korean soap operas, may no longer care. Most North Koreans don't even know how many sons the Dear Leader has, says Park Sang Hak, a defector and human-rights activist in Seoul. "People are too tired of endless hunger and threats of war to think about the succession," says Park. About all they could expect from a coronation ceremony might be an extra bowl of rice and an admonition not to show up with long hair...
...also authorizes Bush to spend $80 million helping the estimated 100,000-plus refugees who have fled, mostly to China. News about the impending legislation spread in recent months. At least 140 asylum seekers have stormed embassies and foreign schools in Beijing since early September. "For North Korean defectors in China, America is the land of freedom and the most powerful country in the world," says Park Sang Hak, a Seoul-based refugee activist and former defector...
Democrats are still seething over the very public defection of Zell Miller, the Democratic Senator from Georgia who endorsed George W. Bush and trashed John Kerry at the G.O.P. Convention. Now Republicans have a defector of their own to worry about: Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island's moderate G.O.P. Senator, who told home-state reporters two weeks ago that he probably won't vote for Bush in November. The Senator has opposed the President on such issues as tax cuts, the decision to go to war in Iraq and Bush's refusal to press for renewal of the assault-weapons...