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National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War. Published January, 2000 by Temple University Press. Edited by CIP fellow Craig Eisendrath. A drastic reform of intelligence activities is long overdue. The Cold War has been over for ten years. No country threatens this nation's existence. Yet . . . (cont'd)

A conference on June 7, 2000 of intelligence experts.
Review by James M. Wall, Christianity and Crisis magazine.
Review by Jack R. Binns, former U.S. ambassador to Honduras.
Review by Robert D. Steele, former director of Marine Corps intelligence.
CIP heading to Haiti to observe elections.
Racing to an arms buildup: Melvin Goodman, former head of Soviet analysis at the CIA, tells what will happen when the ABM treaty is dumped. April 27, 2000.

Their spies didn't work, either: Goodman reviews a new book on the KGB. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May-June 2000.

CIP joins in strong NGO statement condemning the violence in Haiti. April 25, 2000.

Reportage on the statement
Inter-Press Service
Just the Facts 1999. By CIP associate Adam Isacson. Published jointly with the Latin American Working Group. Jargon-free analysis of military aid to Latin America. Based on primary U.S. government documents.
"What is there about Cuba that causes the U.S. government to botch almost every action related to it?" Wayne S. Smith asks, January 11, 2000, . Smith is director of CIP's Cuba program and former chief of the U.S. mission in Cuba.
William Shawcross's Endless Conflict: Hope for peace? A review by CIP consultant Craig Eisendrath, editor of National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War. Baltimore Sun, March 19, 2000. The United Nations and humanitiarian intervention.
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On National Public Radio, March 24, 2000. Robert E. White, former ambassador to El Salvador and president of the Center, reflects on the anniversary of the assassination of Monsignor Oscar Romero. "Shortly after I took over my duties as American ambassador, my wifeand I attended Mass in a stark, unfinished cathedral . . . "
Putting a former spy in charge of the Kremlin: Good for the U.S. and Russia? Melvin Goodman, former head of the Soviet desk at the CIA and director of CIP's intelligence-reform program, examines. March 23, 2000.

 

Announcement of new resources at CIP's Colombia website. A central source of information and analysis. March 22, 2000.
The Colombian Dilemma. After half a century of fighting, can a fragile peace process succeed? A new International Policy Report by Adam Isacson. Dissects the guerrilla war, probes human-rights violations. February, 2000.
Getting in Deeper. Part 2 of the above focuses on the growing U.S. involvement. Examines the $1.6 billion aid package: "Quietly, the U.S. military commitment is taking a giant leap." February, 2000.
"Bad Company"--a hard-hitting book review in the March 2000 Washington Monthly by CIP intelligence consultant Melvin A. Goodman. "Once in the company, always in the company" Goodman notes. "The author spent twenty-eight years in the CIA and his book reads very much as though he were still in it."
CIP contributes to free elections in Haiti! The State Department said on February 25, 2000 that after CIP's publication of a secret Haitian government report last summer the election commission instituted important reforms, including the first photo ID card, poll watchers, and a policy of reporting results on election night.
CASE DISMISSED! The Florida supreme court has refused to review the appeals court's overturning of the Miami conviction of Center associate Wayne S. Smith for libel. The case is over. The Cuban-American National Foundation sued Smith for having said on the radio that some money raised for the foundation may have gone to a political-action committee. He was convicted of libel in Miami district court for the statement. The appeals court overturned the conviction.

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