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- <text id=91TT0642>
- <title>
- Mar. 25, 1991: Schwarzkopf vs. The Spooks
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Schwarzkopf vs. The Spooks
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> In the final days of the gulf war, General Norman
- Schwarzkopf had to fend off sniper fire from an unexpected
- front: defense intelligence analysts based in Washington. Both
- the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency thought
- Schwarzkopf's bomb-damage assessments in the final stage of the
- air campaign were inflated as much as 50%. Though Schwarzkopf
- based his information on firsthand pilot reports as well as
- satellite photos, the Beltway desk jockeys were convinced that
- Iraqi tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery were in
- far better shape than field commanders claimed and could
- inflict great damage in ground combat. Bush Administration
- officials were so irritated by the continuing bureaucratic
- controversy that they reprimanded CIA chief William Webster at
- a White House session for letting his people publicly undermine
- Schwarzkopf's figures.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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