Key CIA Clandestine Service Official Retires (no confidence in leadership)

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Key Official In Clandestine Service of CIA To Retire
By Dana Priest and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 9, 2005; Page A05


Robert Richer, the second-ranking official in the CIA's clandestine service, has announced his retirement, telling colleagues that he lacked confidence in the agency's leadership, according to current and former intelligence officials.

Richer, who was one of CIA Director Porter J. Goss's key personnel choices, made his announcement last Friday at a meeting of the Directorate of Operations leaders, according to some of the officials.

Some of them said Richer's decision revolved around an ongoing debate over how to improve human intelligence and the direction of the CIA. The agency's role and influence have waned with the appointment of John D. Negroponte as the overall director of national intelligence.

Other government officials disagreed with that assertion and said Richer's departure involved disputes over "operational issues" that they would not specify, and a clash of personalities between Richer, a former Marine, and Goss and his top aides.

Last year, Richer's predecessor and his boss resigned after clashing with Goss's aides. During Friday's meeting, Richer said he and his boss, the deputy director of operations -- who cannot be named because he remains undercover -- had been frustrated by Goss and his staff in their efforts to implement certain measures, sources said. Richer subsequently met with national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley to explain his decision....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801796.html

[UpInArms]

1. No confidence in Porter Goss?

http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6512004.html

THE MAN PICKED by President George W Bush to head America’s Central Intelligence Agency is even more of an intelligence insider than has so far been revealed...

Although membership in a secret society would seem to compromise a bit anyone being considered to lead an Agency which is itself a secret society, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Republican Porter J Goss of Sanibel Island Florida is a member of the secret society “Book & Snake” at Yale.

President George W Bush's nominee to head the nation's flagship intelligence agency also appears to be visible in a photograph taken in 1963 in a Mexico City nightclub of members of the CIA’s secret assassination squad known as “Operation Forty."

...more...


The Mexico City nightclub photo reveals a mixed group of apparent Cuban exiles, Italian wise guys, and square-jawed military intelligence types. It was discovered among keepsakes kept in the safe of the widow of CIA pilot and drug smuggler Barry Seal (third from left). It appears on the cover of “Barry & ‘the boys:’ The CIA, the Mob & America’s Secret History” (MadCow Press, Eugene OR. 2001).

Goss appears second on the left. He is seated between notorious CIA pilot and drug smuggler Barry Seal (third left) and the equally-notorious CIA assassin Felix Rodriguez (front left), a Cuban vice cop under the corrupt Mob-run Batista regime who later became an Iran Contra operative and a confidant of the first George Bush.

The only one of the spook celebrants displaying any hint of tradecraft (seated on the other side of the table covering his face with his sport coat) is Frank Sturgis, most famous as one of the Watergate burglars.

[KoKo]

2. Oh Lordy...that photo looks like something from an old Mafia Movie....

Goss has certainly "preppyied himself up" since those days.

You have to wonder with how FEMA and Homeland has handled Katrina...what the heck is going on with our Intelligence Services under Negroponte. :scared:

[UpInArms]

5. here's some more info

when I was reading the caption under that pic - the name Felix Rodriguez stirred another link:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/

IRAN-CONTRA AND POSADA (A.K.A. RAMON MEDINA)

Document 14: September 2, 1986, Contra re-supply document,

After bribing his way out of prison in Venezuela in September 1985, Posada went directly to El Salvador to work on the illicit contra resupply operations being run by Lt. Col. Oliver North. Posada assumed the name "Ramon Medina," and worked as a deputy to another anti-Castro Cuban exile, Felix Rodriguez, who was in charge of a small airlift of arms and supplies to the contras in Southern Nicaragua. Rodriguez used the code name, Max Gomez. This document, released during the Congressional investigation into the Iran-Contra operations, records both Posada and Rodriguez obtaining supplies for contra troops from a warehouse at Illopango airbase in San Salvador.

[KoKo]

6. Thanks...interesting read at that link...here's a little more on mafia....

from that link.. There's "something about Porter Goss." And that he was confirmed means there's probably "something about those who appointed and confirmed him" if you get my drift. :scared:

from National Security Archive link.
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Document 5: CIA, April 17, 1972, Personal Record Questionnaire on Posada

This "PRQ" was compiled in 1972 at a time Posada was a high level official at the Venezuelan intelligence service, DISIP, in charge of demolitions. The CIA was beginning to have some concerns about him, based on reports that he had taken CIA explosives equipment to Venezuela, and that he had ties to a Miami mafia figure named Lefty Rosenthal. The PRQ spells out Posada's personal background and includes his travel to various countries between 1956 and 1971. It also confirms that one of his many aliases was "Bambi Carriles."

[Mairead]

8. How nice--major unindictable criminals enjoying themselves.

People who, in any decent country, would be in prison instead sit there having a good time (during a period when Democrats controled government, I note).

[psychopomp]

9. Thanks for posting that photo

I had forgotten about this interesting snapshot of Mr. Goss and his croneys.

[Lindacooks]

3. Negroponte is a master of torture, though!!

We know how the Bushes looooove torture - of someone else, of course, so they can watch and get off on it.

[krkaufman]

4. No problem; maybe the Arabian Horse Association has someone...

... willing to lead the CIA Clandestine services.

[existentialist]

7. Key Official In Clandestine Service of CIA To Retire

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801796_pf.html

Key Official In Clandestine Service of CIA To Retire
By Dana Priest and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers

Friday, September 9, 2005; A05

Robert Richer, the second-ranking official in the CIA's clandestine service, has announced his retirement, telling colleagues that he lacked confidence in the agency's leadership, according to current and former intelligence officials.

Richer, who was one of CIA Director Porter J. Goss's key personnel choices, made his announcement last Friday at a meeting of the Directorate of Operations leaders, according to some of the officials.
Some of them said Richer's decision revolved around an ongoing debate over how to improve human intelligence and the direction of the CIA. The agency's role and influence have waned with the appointment of John D. Negroponte as the overall director of national intelligence.
Other government officials disagreed with that assertion and said Richer's departure involved disputes over "operational issues" that they would not specify, and a clash of personalities between Richer, a former Marine, and Goss and his top aides.

[enough]

10. kick

[peacetalksforall]

11. Our United States of Corporations is the the phoniest country on the

planet.

The little people go along working hard and paying taxes and losing thier jobs to corporate greed and pledging the allegiance and pretending to vote - and criminals have taken over. Man, are they ever clever. The greater per cent of citizens put all their faith in these officials - and this is what is really going on.

We are trusting fools and imbeciles.

Sometimes, however, the conscious does kick in for a few.

[peacetalksforall]

12. Every day that I learn one new thing about the corruiption of our

officials, I become angrier with our Congresspeople.

[goforit]

13. Oh well....the chaos continues!!!

In the last five years, I have never seen such a reign of
evil, disaster and chaos permeate in this country around
these thugs whom claim they are THE leaders of the world.

When will it all bottom out?