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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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A look at the CIA from the Inside
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I think that it is time to make public some information which the current
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administration and the Central Intelligence Agency would prefer to keep
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from the public eye. During the years since the start of the events which
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will be described here, the CIA has been very successful in convincing the
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printed media from investigating these events. I have come to believe that
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there are only two reasonable explanations for this:
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1) The CIA has considerable influence over the printed media and is able to
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dictate what they can and cannot print.
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2) The printed media is willing to sacrifice freedom of the press as a
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trade-off for a pay-off that they are unwilling to acknowledge to the
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populace at large. No matter which case is true, it is well past time to
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distribute this information and I have chosen to post this widely on the
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internet so that the facts can be read as widely as possible.
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In 1981, fresh from Colorado State University, I was hired by the Central
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Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Administration/Office of Communications
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(DA/OC) as a Telecommunications Officer. In this capacity I was responsible
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for operating a wide variety of telecommunications devices in support of the
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CIA's worldwide network of communication which is used to pass information
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and instructions back and forth between CIA headquarters and its myriad
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field sites. After several years of this I applied for a program which
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would permit me to become a Computer Systems Analyst Programmer in the
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Engineering Division of OC and was reassigned as such in 1985.
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After spending several months in training for my new duties I became
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aware of a domestic assignment at a field site in the southeastern United
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States. Since I was fairly new to the Engineering Division, I did not think
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I had much chance of getting this assignment, but all of the more senior
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officers who were offered this position refused the assignment because they
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did not desire to accept a geographic relocation to that particular
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location.
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After exhausting all other possibilities, they finally asked me if I
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would take the assignment and I accepted immediately because I wanted to
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live in that part of the country ever since my Navy days. I was also anxious
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to move because I found that having lived in many different places in the
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United States and around the world, Virginia was absolutely one of the worst
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possible places to live. My life had been miserable ever since returning
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from an overseas assignment which lasted from September 1981 until September
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1983 because I had been subjected to working conditions which were punitive,
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unhealthy and was designed to illustrate that mistreatment of employees was
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sanctioned by OC management.
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After that, things moved pretty quickly and in January 1986 I pack my car
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full and started heading southward to my new home and job at a major
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telecommunications relay center. About two days later I arrived to find
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that I would be largely responsible for defining the duties and
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responsibilities of my new position and I attracted this with fervor. Since
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this was a new position and because the facility was also new, we had no
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legacy to rely on and I soon found myself in the position of being a manager
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ex portfolio. Because this facility strongly relied on its variety of
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automated systems, I became conversant in every phase of the operations - in
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fact, I was really the only person who really understood every phase of the
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operation because none of the other individuals who were assigned to the
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facility had any real knowledge of the automated systems beyond an
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operational level. My managers soon learned to trust and rely on my judgment.
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When I arrived at the facility I was a GS-10. Over the next four years I
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was promoted three times to a final level of GS-13. My peers at other
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facilities used to seek my advice on matters relating to the automated
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systems and through my own efforts I had considerable influence on many
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different facets of the way in which automated systems were used in support
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of the worldwide mission of the CIA. My efforts were also acknowledged on
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two separate occasions in the form of $1500 cash awards. In one case the
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award was given because I identified a potentially critical weakness in the
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security features of one of the systems I worked with. I cannot freely
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discuss the exact nature of this weakness, but it once CIA management
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became fully aware of the nature of the problem they took steps to
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hand-carry a software fix to every location throughout the world where one
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of these systems were in use. This system had been in use since before I
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became an employee of the CIA in 1981, and in all of the intervening years,
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no other programmer had ever noticed that the problem even existed. I will
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also add that the CIA's performance appraisal review system is based on a
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scale of 1 to 7. With the exception of my first performance review which
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was conducted shortly after my arrival while I was still adjusting to my new
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job, I was rated as an overall 7 with my lowest grades on individual rating
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items being a 6.
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In the normal sequence of an individual's career, it would be normal to
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expect that superior performance would be rewarded and that the OC mangers
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would attempt to move me into areas which represented increased
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opportunities. However, the CIA does not represent normalcy. There were
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several things that happened along the way. First of all, several officers
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who were more senior then me had considerable resentments towards me. In
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several cases they had been programmers on the system which was my primary
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responsibility for years before I began to work with the system and in all
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that time they had been unable to resolve some serious problems with the
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software they had written. In some cases they were not even able to provide
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a reasonably coherent description for the cause of spontaneous system
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failures. Once I began to work with this system I rapidly began to identify
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problems with the programs and wrote corrective fixes. I was generating
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these changes so quickly that the managers at headquarters were not able
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to keep up with the pace. In most cases they didn't even understand the
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nature of the problems even after they saw that my changes corrected
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problems that had plagued the system since its inception. They grew
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strongly resentful because it soon became obvious that their own
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incompetence had caused these problems and managers who were even more
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senior had to start asked serious questions about why my predecessors had
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been unable to correct these problems. Secondly, I always tended to stay
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within the guidelines of official policy. This meant that when I discovered
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a potential security lapse I felt that I was obliged to report this through
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formal channels even though it could possibly cause problems for a senior
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officer who had caused the security problem. I received a blistering
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private phone call from this officer who berated me heavily for reporting
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this incident in official channels. I never understood how he was able to
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suppress the investigation of this incident, but this potential compromise
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was never examined fully. That officer continued to carry a resentment
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against me and apparently vowed that he would make me pay for what I had
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done. Thirdly, an unqualified junior, female programmer decided that she
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had enough competence to do my job. Since I was the only programmer
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assigned to the facility, the only way she could do that was to get OC
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management to remove me from the position.
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Because of the other matters discussed here, they were all too willing to
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do this to demonstrate that they could and would punish any officer who did
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not act in a condescending manner.
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I had been warned of course. On a very frequent basis I was warned that
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I really needed to learn to drink with the right people. Since I was not a
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heavy drinker, I did not fit in well with many of the senior staff and I
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also objected strongly to an illegal bar which was operated in the rear of
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one of the buildings there. Secondly, at one point I was assigned to a
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problem which had been assigned to every other programmer who had ever
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worked on the system and none of them had been able to solve the problem and
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by the time it was assigned to me it was already described as unsolveable.
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Just to be sure, however, they gave a message to an individual who would
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soon visit the facility. He told me that if I were really smart I would
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basically declare that the problem could not be resolved because that would
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at least mollify those who desired that I have at least some weakness.
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Unfortunately, I did not listen to that warning and within a week I had
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identified the source of the problem and by the end of the second week I had
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coded and tested a solution which resolved the problem entirely. I found
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out later that there was a lot of people who were very angry that I solved
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this problem. On a personal level I had nothing against the individual who
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schemed to replace me. I didn't know her and really didn't care to.
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However, once she got it in her mind that she was determined to replace me,
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she stopped at nothing to force the transfer to take place.
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At one point, approximately a year before my final departure in July of
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1990, she was sent to act as a caretaker for the systems at the facility
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while I took several weeks of leave. Without any authority or direction,
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she made several modification to the programs of the primary system. Not
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only were these changes completely unauthorized, they were also done in a way
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that violated configuration control policies set up
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by the Office of Communication. Upon my return I discovered these changes
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and when I asked her directly who had given her authority to make these
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changes, she refused to answer. After her departure the following day I
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removed the modifications and informed headquarters of my actions. One of
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my sources later informed me that this person had reacted quite angrily when
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I had exposed her unauthorized actions. However, since she was already
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threatening OC with a Title VII action if they did not give her the position
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I occupied, the die was already cast.
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Unilaterally, I was informed that I would be transferred to headquarters
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without recourse. While other officers at my level had been given a choice
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of assignments and had normally been given their first choice, I was
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informed that any input I provided regarding my future assignment would be
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ignored. When I complained that their actions were discriminatory and
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illegal, they stated that as a single, white male I had absolutely no
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recourse whatsoever because I was not a member of a protected class. They
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even went further to state that because I was single I was required to be
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more flexible then my married peers. This despite an Executive Order which
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stated that marital status could not be used as a basis of discrimination.
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Because of some faulty information I had received and because senior CIA
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officials were determined to have their way, I was steered away from the EEO
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system (where there is a mandated legal requirement to take certain actions)
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to the grievance system (under which, at the time, there was no requirement
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for any action to be taken by the Agency). I later learned that the
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director of the Office of Communication demanded that my grievance be
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discarded and that no action would be taken. I was never informed of this
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and only discovered that this had happened when I made some subsequent
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queries.
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At one point I considered quitting, but the Agency made it very clear
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that this would not be tolerated. They stated that they would ensure that I
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would never be able to work in that area and even went as far as to say "We
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can envision no circumstances under which you can be permitted to remain in
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_______" - a statement which has certain ramifications when said by a SIS
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level officer who was representing the official position of the Agency. I
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knew at that point that I had been blackmailed and since I preferred to
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remain alive I accepted the transfer.
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Of course, the matter did not end there. Over the next two years they
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made it quite clear to me that I would be punished until such time as they
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decided otherwise. I was given menial duties that were completely
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inconsistent with my grade and professional performance, I was treated
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horribly by my supervisors and was generally made to feel like a piece of
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shit. At one point I was even told that I could not sit at the conference
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table during official meetings of my division and branch along with other
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staff members. I was told that I would never be eligible for promotion
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again and I would not be considered for any assignment opportunities. They
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made my life miserable for two years until I finally had enough and
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identified a job with a private company who made me a generous offer because
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my resume showed that I had considerable expertise as a programmer. My
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manager at the time had no idea that I had been job-hunting and when I
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presented her with my letter of resignation she became livid and she
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literally backed me into a corner and proceeded to harangue me in an
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extremely abusive and derisive manner for a long time before she finally
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allowed me to leave her office. I had never been humiliated that way
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before - and this was by someone who made a point about leaving a Bible
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laying around her office so that everyone would believe that she had
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religious convictions.
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I was free. Sort of. It still took me another year to find a physical
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escape from those surroundings. When I received an offer for a job in North
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Carolina I jumped at it. Although I could never right the wrongs that were
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done against me, at least I didn't have to live in an area where I was daily
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reminded that they had won and I had lost.
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Because I finally received the type of information which had been
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withheld from me concerning my rights under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I
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finally filed a lawsuit against the CIA. Since the lawsuit was filed the
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Agency has done everything it can think of to stonewall the case. They have
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failed to fulfill certain administrative responsibilities that they have in
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regards to required security briefings, they had attempted to use their
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influence over the courts to have the case dismissed, and they have even
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made an appointed official violate the integrity of the position he holds by
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having him state that it was reasonable for the events to happen as they did
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since the "needs of the service" outweigh all other considerations. What
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you have just read is not the whole story. The whole story will eventually
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fill a book. What I really want to impress on everyone, however, is that
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the people of this country have allowed an agency of the Executive branch of
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government to act this way. While there is congressional oversight for
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matters relating to intelligence and covert activities, the Agency does not
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acknowledge any authority over its internal personnel practices. While
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other agencies are required to abide by OPM policies, the CIA has been
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exempt from these. Even the office of the President of the United States
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didn't know what to make of my case - they even tried at one point to refer
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the matter to the Office of Special Counsel, but that office had to inform
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the White House that they had no authority to act since the CIA was exempted
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from examination.
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This has been a long, arduous journey for me. I have lost friendships
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because the CIA chose to punish those who had an association with me, I have
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been forced to give up basic human rights which are supposedly guaranteed by
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our Constitution and I have had my career damaged by those power-hungry
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individuals whose childish actions served their own purposes even though
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those actions defined rational justification.
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I don't know where this journey will take me. Maybe one day someone will
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find me face down in a ditch somewhere. Maybe they'll just make me totally
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disappear. That they would ever admit that they were engaged in illegal and
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immoral activities seems unlikely because the President simply doesn't care
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about individual citizens of this country and is probably intimidated by the
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CIA - or at least overly impressed with the mystique that the Agency
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represents. At least, however, I have gotten at least some of my story out.
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If this causes even one person to question how we have let the government get
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so out of control that events like this can occur, then this communication
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has served its purpose.
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- Far Reaches
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= Questions, Comments, Bitches, Ideas, Rants, Death Threats, etc etc... =
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