12-02-2011, 04:57 PM
While I am hardly surprised at David Guyatt's disappearance from this discussion, given all the wild claims he made about my research, I did expect him to stick around long enough so that we could clarify which American agency, the CIA or NSA, did the job on former DCI William Colby.
In reading James Bamford's Body of Secrets, it seems more likely that a unit within NSA's Special Collection Service (SCS) did it, like the assassination of guard Ricca at the new site of the National Reconnaissance Office a few years earlier, since it had taken over from Bill Harvey's ZR/RIFLE project within the CIA's Division D after the fallout from the Watergate scandal. (pp. 477-80)
SCS is to make the most of America's sigint capability by making sure that human troublemakers do not leak its operations or capabilities - what Colby and Ricca threatened to do.
For more of this, see DC Dave's account of not only Bamford's but also Bob Woodward's lack of interest in Ricca's killing when they were discussing Angus Mackenzie's Secrets after his troubling death.
It was only with Bamford's book that researchers could get up to speed about what NSA is really capable of, and doing.
In reading James Bamford's Body of Secrets, it seems more likely that a unit within NSA's Special Collection Service (SCS) did it, like the assassination of guard Ricca at the new site of the National Reconnaissance Office a few years earlier, since it had taken over from Bill Harvey's ZR/RIFLE project within the CIA's Division D after the fallout from the Watergate scandal. (pp. 477-80)
SCS is to make the most of America's sigint capability by making sure that human troublemakers do not leak its operations or capabilities - what Colby and Ricca threatened to do.
For more of this, see DC Dave's account of not only Bamford's but also Bob Woodward's lack of interest in Ricca's killing when they were discussing Angus Mackenzie's Secrets after his troubling death.
It was only with Bamford's book that researchers could get up to speed about what NSA is really capable of, and doing.