Lane, Charles. "Air Force Spy Trial to Proceed Despite Modified Evidence." Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2004, A9. [http://www.washingtonpost.com] Lane, Charles. "Air Force Spy Trial to Proceed Despite Modified Evidence." Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2004, A9. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
With a military espionage trial against Senior Airman Ahmad al Halabi, a former Air Force translator at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ready to begin on 14 September 2004, the Air Force acknowledged last week "that only one of the more than 200 documents it had accused ... Halabi of plotting to smuggle into Syria was classified.
"The concession is the latest government retrenchment in a series of cases that last year led investigators to suspect a possible spy ring at the prison..., and resulted in the arrests of two U.S. servicemen and a contract translator, all of them Muslim. Earlier this year, the government dropped all charges against Capt. James Yee, a Muslim Army chaplain.... A third man, Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, a former civilian translator at Guantanamo Bay, faces trial in a Boston federal court."
[SpyCases/U.S./Gitmo]
Lane, Charles. "Book Details U.S. Protection of Former Nazi Officials." Washington Post, 14 May 2004, A2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
A book, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, released on 13 May 2004 by historians who have been reviewing declassified government documents for the government sheds "new light on the secret protection and support given to former Nazi officials and Nazi collaborators by U.S. intelligence agencies in the years following World War II. The book ... is based on 240,000 pages of FBI records, 419 CIA files on individuals and 3,000 pages of U.S. Army information detailing the Army's postwar relationship with former officers of the German Wehrmacht's intelligence service."
[GenPostwar/40s/Nazis]
Lane, Charles.
1. "Court to Hear Arguments of CIA Spies: Former Soviet-Bloc Couple Sued Agency for Breach of Clandestine Deal." Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2005, A2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
In Tenet v. Doe, No. 03-1395, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a married couple from a former Soviet-bloc country who spied for the United States and are suing the CIA for not following through on "what they thought was a promise ... of a new home in the United States and a lifetime income."
2. "Court Hears Espionage Compensation Case: Justices Appear Skeptical of Soviet Bloc Defectors' Lawsuit Against the CIA." Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2005, A2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 11 January 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court "seemed inclined to back the CIA's freedom to cut secret deals with foreign spies.... Members of the court repeatedly pressed an attorney for the defectors ... to explain why it should permit them to sue the agency, given that Supreme Court precedent dating from 1875 [Totten v. U.S.] says that espionage contracts are unenforceable in court."
3. "Justices Rule Spies Cannot Sue U.S. Over Deals: 9 to 0 Decision Affirms Agencies' Leeway in Hiring Foreign Agents." Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2005, A3. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on 2 March 2005 that "[s]pies cannot sue the U.S. government for allegedly reneging on their espionage contracts.... [T]he court dismissed a lawsuit by two former Soviet bloc diplomats." Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing for the court, said the applicable rule had been laid down in Totten v. U.S. "In that case, the court held that a suit to enforce an espionage contract is inconsistent with the mutual pledge of secrecy that forms a central condition of any such arrangement."
[CIA/00s/05/Gen]
Lane, Charles. "Court Will Review Right to Secret Data." Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2001, A11. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
In the case of Christopher v. Harbury, No. 01-394, the U.S. Supreme Court announced on 10 December 2001 that it would consider whether "an American activist who supported the guerrillas during their war against the Guatemalan army," Jennifer K. Harbury, "has the right to sue former high-ranking U.S. officials for allegedly covering up the torture and murder of her husband, who was a commander of the now-defunct Marxist guerrillas in Guatemala."
[Overviews/Legal]
Lane, Charles. "Superman Meets Shining Path: Story of a CIA Success." Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2000, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Taking down the guerrillas in Peru.
[CIA/00s/00/Gen; OtherCountries/Peru]
Lane, Charles.
"Why Spy?" New Republic, 27 Mar. 1995, 10.
ProQuest: "The CIA's effort at economic intelligence gathering is a redundant activity that dilutes the agency's focus and stretches its resources."
[GenPostwar/Econ/Govt]
Lane, Larry [SFC/USA].
"An Eye in the Sky." Soldiers, Jul. 1998, 48-48.
Focus is on the Camcopter, following tests at the McKenna Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain site at Ft. Benning, GA, which can be programmed for specific missions or manually controlled through joystick controls.
[Recon/UAVs]
Lane, Pádraig G. "Government Surveillance of Subversion, 1890-1916." In Laois: History & Society. Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County, eds. Pádraig G. Lane and William Nolan, 602-625. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1999.
[OtherCountries/Ireland]
Lanfranco, Edward.
"Wreakage of CIA Plane Found in China." UPI, 29 Jul. 2002.
[http:// www.upi.com]
"Members of a U.S. Army search team believe they have located the debris of a C-47 plane shot down 50 years ago on a nighttime mission to pick up an agent from behind enemy lines in the Korean War, but the graves of the two pilots [Robert C. Snoddy and Norman A. Schwartz] killed in the crash have not been found."
[CIA/00s/02/Gen]
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