Smith, R. Jeffrey.
"Woolsey: At the CIA, a Cautious Moderate." Washington Post
National Weekly Edition, 28 Dec. 1992-3 Jan. 1993, 12.1. Material on Woolsey
2. Woolsey's Writings and Speeches
Smith, R. Jeffrey.
"Woolsey: At the CIA, a Cautious Moderate." Washington Post
National Weekly Edition, 28 Dec. 1992-3 Jan. 1993, 12.
President Clinton's nominee for DCI, Robert James Woolsey, "is an engaging, politically cautious moderate" with ties to both political parties.
Gordon, Michael
R. "'Campus Activist to Insider': C.I.A. Choice's Inner Journey."
New York Times, 11 Jan. 1993, A1, A14.
Martin, Jurek.
"Woolsey Spies New Targets for the CIA." Financial Times,
3 Feb. 1993, 8.
Fessler, Pamela.
"Woolsey Gets Senate Approval; Budget Cuts, Overhaul Await." Congressional
Quarterly Weekly Report, 6 Feb. 1993, 276-277.
Senate votes 3 February 1993 to confirm R. James Woolsey as DCI.
Smith, R. Jeffrey.
"A Director Who Has Trouble Reading the Political Tea Leaves."
Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 31 May-5 Jun. 1994, 7-8.
DCI R. James Woolsey's difficulties with Congress and some other members of the Executive Branch are surveyed. Relations with Congress have reached the point that, with the exception of former Defense Secretary Les Aspin, Woolsey "has received more criticism from his congressional overseers than any other cabinet-level official in this administration." Some people point to the DCI's "zealous defense of the agency" as a source of his problems, while others find the root cause in "President Clinton's perceived lack of interest in intelligence matters and foreign policy issues." But even his friends believe that Woolsey's "argumentative and sometimes abrasive personal style" exacerbates his difficulties.
Pincus, Walter,
and R. Jeffrey Smith. "A Real Spy Thriller." Washington Post
National Weekly Edition, 21-27 Nov. 1994, 32.
"The Republican election victory is likely to slow the Clinton administration's planned reductions in intelligence spending and may also help keep embattled CIA Director R. James Woolsey in office a while longer."
IntellectualCapital.com. "The Changing Game of Cloak and Dagger: An Interview with James Woolsey." 29 May 1997. [http://www.intellectualcapital.com]
The interview covers such topics as: the San Jose Mercury-News crack cocaine story ("basically a lie"), the intelligence budget ("has been cut substantially"), accountability (there is "accountability in spades"), and the future of the CIA ("I hope that no one ... pulls off something as stupid as closing down the CIA").
Woolsey,
R. James. "Intelligence Quotient: The Mission of the CIA in the New
World." Harvard International Review (1994): 34-37, 80.
Woolsey, R. James. "The Iraqi Connection: Blood Baath." The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2001. [http://www.thenewrepublic.com]
"In the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's attacks, attention has focused on terrorist chieftain Osama bin Laden. And he may well be responsible. But intelligence and law enforcement officials investigating the case would do well to at least consider another possibility: that the attacks -- whether perpetrated by bin Laden and his associates or by others -- were sponsored, supported, and perhaps even ordered by Saddam Hussein."
[Woolsey, R.
James] "News from Headquarters." CIRA Newsletter 14, no.
2 (Summer 1994): 25
Excerpts from remarks on 17 March 1994, to Conference on "The Origins and Development of the CIA in the Administration of Harry S. Truman"; focus of excerpts is on the Ames case and steps taken in response to that case.
[Woolsey, R.
James.] "Transcript of Remarks by James Woolsey at the Foreign Press
Center, Washington, DC, on 7 March 2000." [http://cryptome.org/echelon-cia.htm]
The former DCI addresses some of the misunderstandings regarding the relationship (or lack thereof) between U.S. intelligence activities and U.S. commercial concerns: "If you look at the Aspin-Brown Commission report of some four years ago,... it states quite clearly that the United States does not engage in industrial espionage in the sense of collecting or even sorting intelligence that it collects overseas for the benefit of and to be given to American corporations."
Woolsey, R. James.
"Why We Spy on Our Allies." Wall Street
Journal, 17 Mar. 2000. [http://interactive.wsj.com]
"The European Parliament's recent report on Echelon ... has sparked angry accusations ... that U.S. intelligence is stealing advanced technology from European companies so that we can ... give it to American companies and help them compete. My European friends, get real. True, in a handful of areas European technology surpasses American, but ... the number of such areas is ... very small. Most European technology just isn't worth our stealing. Why, then, have we spied on you? The answer is ... [that] we have spied on you because you bribe ... a lot....
"What are the economic secrets, in addition to bribery attempts, that we have conducted espionage to obtain? One example is some companies' efforts to conceal the transfer of dual-use technology.... Another is economic activity in countries subject to sanctions.... But do we collect or even sort secret intelligence for the benefit of specific American companies? Even Mr. Campbell admits that we don't, although he can't bring himself to say so except with a double negative: 'In general this is not incorrect.'"
Woolsey, R. James. "World War IV." Intelligencer 13, no. 2 (Winter-Spring 2003): 5-12.
The Cold War having been World War III, the war on terrorism is World War IV. The former DCI looks at the enemy, the war at home, and the war abroad. He concludes that we will need to convince the peoples of those countries that are not democracies, particularly in the Middle East, that this is not a war of "us against them," but a war of "freedom against tyranny."
Woolsey, R. James, Doyle Larson [MAJGEN/USAF (Ret.)], and Linda Zall. "Honoring Two World War II Heroes: Prestigious Intelligence Rewards." Studies
in Intelligence 38, no. 5 (1995): 27-36.
Woolsey, Larson, and Zall remarks at 27 October 1993 ceremony at CIA Headquarters honoring R.V. Jones and Jeannie (Rousseau) de Clarens.
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