[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 23, 1994]
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               THE CIA MUST BE DOWNSIZED AND DISINFECTED

  (Mr. OWENS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, the CIA must be downsized and disinfected. 
The headlines today provide us with new proof that the intelligence 
operations dinosaur, which devours billions of dollars, taxpayers' 
dollars, is corrupt as well as inefficient and out of control. The 
headlines tell us that Aldrich Ames, a highly placed decisionmaker, on 
a career track which might have, one day, led him to become Director of 
the CIA; well, this man has been a Soviet spy since 1985.
  Taxpayers, wake up. A blunder of this magnitude at a very high level 
makes it necessary to perform critical surgery. Taxpayers must stay 
alert and not allow the damage control experts to cover up this 
exposure of gangrene at the heart of the American intelligence 
structure.
  Mr. Speaker, it is not enough just to convict Aldrich Ames of 
espionage. The entire monstrous CIA must be disinfected. Brian Lattel, 
and all the other vermin, must be cleaned out. The CIA must be 
downsized, and the CIA must be disinfected.

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