Monday, March 13, 2006

Newspaper Claims to Find CIA Agents Via Internet

The Chicago Tribune has claimed to find names, addresses and other information of covert CIA agents and fake companies they set up.
WASHINGTON -- She is 52 years old, married, grew up in the Kansas City suburbs and now lives in Virginia, in a new three-bedroom house.

Anyone who can qualify for a subscription to one of the online services that compile public information also can learn that she is a CIA employee who, over the past decade, has been assigned to several American embassies in Europe.

The CIA asked the Tribune not to publish her name because she is a covert operative, and the newspaper agreed. But unbeknown to the CIA, her affiliation and those of hundreds of men and women like her have somehow become a matter of public record, thanks to the Internet.
Is it true? Would a member of the maninstream media make something up?