Counter-Proliferation

The discovery that Saddam Hussein had come close to building a nuclear weapon without the knowledge of the United States and its allies sent shudders through the agency and led to the creation in 1994 of the Counter-Proliferation Division within the DO.

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By 1997, Plame had joined the Counter-Proliferation Division, where she posed as a businesswoman working for the energy consulting firm Brewster Jennings & Associates.

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The Counter-Proliferation Division differed from most CIA divisions because it was organized around a topic, nuclear proliferation, rather than by geographic boundaries.

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So, with the approval of his superiors in the Directorate of Operations and Counter-Proliferation Division, Kinsman promised the Tinners that they would be well compensated for any time they spent in jail, as long as they kept quiet.

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Others within the Counter-Proliferation Division at Langley would wind down the investigation that Kinsman had started many years earlier.

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In 1994, the Counter-Proliferation Division had established a company called Brewster Jennings & Associates to provide cover for NOCs working in Europe.

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For Kinsman and his colleagues in the Counter-Proliferation Division, the announcement in Tripoli was the culmination of what they regarded as a textbook example of a successful intelligence operation.

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We also interviewed two former officers from the CIA Counter-Proliferation Division, both of whom requested anonymity.

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But within the Counter-Proliferation Division at the CIA, the confession was cause for celebration, a signal victory in the war against the spread of nuclear weapons.

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For several months, the CIA asset fed a steady stream of intelligence back to the Counter-Proliferation Division at CIA headquarters.

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