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Bush demands thousands more spies for CIA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush has ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to hire and train thousands of new spies, the Washington Post said Wednesday.
The directive to CIA Director Porter Goss instructed him to increase by 50 percent the number of qualified CIA clandestine operatives and intelligence analysts.
The 50 percent increases called for "are huge," requiring a new training facility "and even more aggressive recruiting, or lowering the quality of people," a former CIA official told the newspaper.
Bush also ordered the doubling of CIA officers involved in...
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