Walid Phares: "Al Qaida attempting to infiltrate the CIA? IS IT EVEN A QUESTION?
By Andrew Cochran
Walid Phares asked me to post the following for him:
"In the July 10 issue of the LA Times, Michael Sulick wrote that "as many as 40 possible terrorists may have attempted to infiltrate U.S. intelligence agencies in recent months, CIA expert Barry Royden reported at a national counterintelligence conference in March." Had I been free to release my instinct-based reaction, I would have said (not wrote) duh!..(well I wrote it now).
My comment is brief: Not only al Qaida is trying to infiltrating the CIA, but it has been attempting to do so since the mid 1990s. And not only the CIA, but also the FBI, and other security and military agencies. And let me add, not only through "Jamesbondian" sensational ways but by the book, and under US laws. Let me just throw this question at the memory of university professors across the nation: How many times were you approached over the past ten years to write a letter of recommendation for a student "very interested" in one of the agencies? Remember his/her reasons, research interest and ponder a little (...)
The whole issue of how the agency is recruiting for its War on Terror is of extreme importance. Two aspects to think about. How many "wrong persons" have been already recruited, and even as worrisome, how many "right persons" were not recruited! I'll come back with more on this later, including in my forthcoming book, Future Jihad, expected for end of October."
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