[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 27 (Friday, March 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 11, 1994]
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                     ANOTHER AGENCY OUT OF CONTROL

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, let us see if something makes sense:
  The CIA and the FBI said 3 years ago, ``Alridge Ames looks a little 
suspicious. He paid over a half million dollars in cash for his home in 
Virginia.''
  So, Mr. Speaker, they called him in, and Aldridge Ames said, ``Hey, I 
got this ton of cash from my father-in-law in Colombia.''
  They said, ``Wow. That explains it all. Thank you. Now we know where 
you got your money from.''
  My colleagues, Colombia is not exactly the Cocoa Puff capital of the 
world, and I think we have a CIA that was waiting to see Aldridge Ames 
light up cigars with hundred dollars bills or maybe see Boris Yeltsin 
do some half gainers in his swimming pool.
  The truth of the matter is, Congress, we have got Barney Fife loose 
at the CIA. I do not buy that old shooting by the madman about a year 
and a half ago, and I think it is time for a little oversight on 
another agency out of control.
  Mr. Speaker, we might start with the IRS, but I think we better look 
at the ``central ignorance agency.'' It is starting to add up.

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