Word: consular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after being detained with Wu for a few days, says he didn't resent the guards. "Harry kept saying, 'They're just doing their job. They're not bad people. They're caught up in the system too.'" Last week Wu was finally allowed a visit by an American consular official, to whom Wu reported that he had not been tortured...
...Karachi, Pakistan, the State Department has provided the diplomatic post with armored vehicles as well as a security team to train its employees. A State Department memo obtained by TIME revealed that, in the months before the attack, a previous security-training team had been virtually ignored by the consular staff-only one employee showed up for counterterrorism class...
...killings of the consular workers were the first in recent memory that both involved foreigners in Karachi and were not connected directly with crime or sectarian strife. That led some diplomats in Karachi to speculate that the attackers were Islamic militants angry at Pakistan's extradition to the U.S. in February of Ramsi Yousef, suspected mastermind of New York City's 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Others suggest it may have been a deliberate attack on CIA employee Durell, pointing out that only he was directly fired upon. Van Landingham died because she was sitting beside Durell and came...
...report by the department's inspector general concludes that it was issued by mistake. But Egyptian fears will be fed by one discovery: sources have told Time that the U.S. diplomat who approved the sheik's visa application in Khartoum was a CIA officer working under cover in the consular office when the sheik's case came up. A CIA spokesman says the agency has found no record of a relationship of any sort with the sheik. Former CIA official Vincent Cannistraro, who once chaired the interagency Afghanistan Working Group, also says that "the sheik was never an agent...
...department's Acting Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, coached Republican Congressman Gerald B. Solomon on how to word a Sept. 29 letter that would provide State with a fig leaf of official justification for a search of Clinton's files. The next day Elizabeth Tamposi, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, seized on Solomon's "request" and a handful of press inquiries to justify a rushed two-day hunt through 10 sets of confidential records in Washington, London and Oslo. Funk's report makes clear that Mullins informed Baker of the searches on or around Oct. 1. When the searches proved...