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Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:22 PM

Published 11/05/2009 by Time


The CIA Doesn't Tell The Truth--Big Deal, Right?

The Central Intelligence Agency recently agreed to pay $3 million to a former Drug Enforcement Agency official, Richard Horn, whose home was wiretapped in Rangoon, Burma, under apparently illegal conditions. That's one thing--a squabble in a distant country over turf between the CIA and the DEA that led one official...

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