MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Undercover CIA agent sues agency over stalled probe of alleged war crimes
By artappraiser on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 4:14pm |By Spencer Ackerman in Washington, guardian.co.uk, 13 June, 2013
A senior undercover CIA officer, accused by the spy agency of "war crimes", has alleged that it halted an internal investigation that could have exonerated him and placed him under surveillance instead.
The lawsuit, which comes as US intelligence is reeling from controversy over its surveillance of Americans' communications records, is expected to be filed Friday in a Washington federal court by longtime intelligence attorney Mark Zaid.
It does not name the operative. Nor does it list the crimes that the officer, who is said to still be a serving official, is alleged to have committed. The officer wants the CIA's inspector general to finish investigating – if only to be exonerated.
The lawsuit does not make any charges about the veracity of the alleged crimes, which the suit says also involves other CIA agents [....]
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