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...Sarah is striking back. She and eight other women -- all clandestine intelligence officers -- have filed a sexual-discrimination class action against the Central Intelligence Agency's alite Directorate of Operations -- the service that gathers intelligence overseas. The CIA has answered the charges with an offer of a collective settlement that includes $940,000 in back pay plus promotions and "career enhancing" assignments. The plaintiffs say that is insufficient...
...lawyers who first negotiated the settlement for the women contend that more than 100 female case officers, now overseas and undercover, have telephoned in their support for the agreement. "This agreement is not a panacea," says Joseph M. Sellers of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. "It will not change overnight what has been decades of entrenched nepotism and connections developed through an old-boy network. But I think it is a very good first step, and it holds real promise to bring that insidious process to an end over time." Unconvinced, the plaintiffs have engaged a new lawyer...
Last December the CIA agreed to pay a $410,000 settlement to former Jamaica station chief Janine Brookner, who had charged, in a highly publicized case, that the agency had falsely accused her of sexual promiscuity and alcoholism after she turned in her male deputy for beating his wife. As it turned out, Brookner had been one of the few Directorate officers who had tried to get Aldrich Ames fired for security breaches, 10 years before the FBI unmasked him for selling secrets to the KGB. As part of Brookner's settlement, the agency promised her a letter of recommendation...
...District Judge Albert Bryan approved a $990,000 settlement of a sex discrimination suit against the CIAover the objections of all but one of the ten women who had filed it. The women had asked that the judge kill the settlement of the class-action case, saying that it was not sufficient compensation for years of unfair treatment by male agency superiors. The women also charged that the agreement did not guarantee that future discrimination would not occur. Although Bryan said he was sympathetic to the women's concerns, he ruled that the settlement was in the best interests...
Dempsey said the original bill was intended tobe the settlement for at least half a decade, butthe newly weakened ordinance may mean anothersmoking battle in the near future. That could comeas soon as the November elections or early nextyear, she said...