Tim Gratz Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 (edited) While the CIA did not kill JFK this is not to say that everything the agency did was commendable. Apparently its excesses continued into the 1990s. The below is from "Legacy of Ashes." One does not know whether to laugh or cry! Perhaps the most comical of all CIA clandestine activities -- unfortunately all too typical of its covert operations over the last 60 years -- was the spying it did in 1994 on the newly appointed American ambassador to Guatemala, Marilyn McAfee, who sought to promote policies of human rights and justice in that country. Loyal to the murderous Guatemalan intelligence service, the CIA had bugged her bedroom and picked up sounds that led their agents to conclude that the ambassador was having a lesbian love affair with her secretary, Carol Murphy. The CIA station chief "recorded her cooing endearments to Murphy." The agency spread the word in Washington that the liberal ambassador was a lesbian without realizing that "Murphy" was also the name of her two-year-old black standard poodle. The bug in her bedroom had recorded her petting her dog. She was actually a married woman from a conservative family. [p. 459] One would think that when McAfee whispered those cooiing endearments to her dog Murphy and no human response was recorded that might have caused the CIA Station Chief to question whether McAfee was indeed addressing her endearments to Carol! Or is the moral of this story not to name your dog the same name as your secretary? Edited August 3, 2007 by Tim Gratz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Simkin Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 While the CIA did not kill JFK this is not to say that everything the agency did was commendable. Apparently its excesses continued into the 1990s. The below is from "Legacy of Ashes." One does not know whether to laugh or cry!Perhaps the most comical of all CIA clandestine activities -- unfortunately all too typical of its covert operations over the last 60 years -- was the spying it did in 1994 on the newly appointed American ambassador to Guatemala, Marilyn McAfee, who sought to promote policies of human rights and justice in that country. Loyal to the murderous Guatemalan intelligence service, the CIA had bugged her bedroom and picked up sounds that led their agents to conclude that the ambassador was having a lesbian love affair with her secretary, Carol Murphy. The CIA station chief "recorded her cooing endearments to Murphy." The agency spread the word in Washington that the liberal ambassador was a lesbian without realizing that "Murphy" was also the name of her two-year-old black standard poodle. The bug in her bedroom had recorded her petting her dog. She was actually a married woman from a conservative family. [p. 459] One would think that when McAfee whispered those cooiing endearments to her dog Murphy and no human response was recorded that might have caused the CIA Station Chief to question whether McAfee was indeed addressing her endearments to Carol! Or is the moral of this story not to name your dog the same name as your secretary? Maybe she was having a sexual relationship with her dog. American ambassadors who support human rights are clearly suffering from a variety of psychological disorders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gratz Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 And nobody understands that better than the CIA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Drago Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 (edited) Was the cur a her? Finally, kuBARK begins to make sense. Edited August 3, 2007 by Charles Drago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gratz Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 No, I think you are kubarking up the wrong tree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Drago Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Maybe it was all the doing of the Collie Cartel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gratz Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 (edited) Charles wrote: "Maybe it was all the doing of the Collie Cartel." Nice try, but Murphy was a black poodle!! ***************************************************************** The CIA's official comment on this incident: Even Weiner’s telling of his juiciest tale, involving the American ambassador to Guatemala, is gravely flawed. There is much less to this than Weiner suggests—for starters, the supposed intelligence on which it is based did not even come from the CIA or a CIA source. As is so often the case, there is more than one side to the story. But you would not know that from Weiner’s book. The CIA does not like "Legacy of Ashes", of course. Edited August 7, 2007 by Tim Gratz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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