S. Florida becoming a haven for retired CIA agents

[donsu]

http://gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061030/LOCAL/210300358/1078/news


Where do former CIA agents go when they come in from the cold?

Many are finding steamy South Florida the ideal place to parlay intelligence skills into second careers and business rewards.

The same goes for former American ambassadors and retired military officers who also have discovered that the place once dubbed America's Casablanca has become a fertile spot for lucrative jobs even without major federal offices, military contractors or even abundant corporate headquarters.

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Perhaps the biggest attraction for the former intelligence officers, ambassadors and even a four-star general is that living in South Florida allows them to keep abreast of events in Latin America, helping them maintain their competitive edge as they take on new careers prospecting for strategic information, opening doors and clearing hurdles for business in the region.

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Many former CIA officers are also familiar with Miami because the CIA maintained a station here with 300 to 400 staffers and a $50 million annual budget in the 1960s.

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In September of last year, Miami also became the first city outside Washington to have an Overseas Security Advisory Council, which allows U.S. government agencies to share security information with U.S. companies working abroad.
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politics and business in Miami/south Fl. is vicious

[sui generis]

1. Shades of "Meet the Fokkers"

I can only imagine; Gladys Kravitz on steroids.

[whistle]

2. There may be one or two right in my neighborhood

[dysfunctional press]

3. they can have it...

yet another reason for not wanting to live in america's limp dick of a state.

[Tanuki]

4. convenient location for launching Bay of Pigs Part 2

or the post-Castro "transition"

[William769]

5. Well Porter Goss has a home in S.W. Florida.

[TahitiNut]

6. The region has been favored by privateers for centuries.

Raping and pillaging ... "conservative values."

[Lexingtonian]

7. But what they're doing is all ethical and aboveboard....

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"strategic information"...is that what they call blackmail, bribery, espionage, racketeering, and theft these days?

And if there were a true War On Terror, wouldn't we clean up all the terrorists living in the Miami area first?