Article: CIA brass displays calm amid storm But dissidents keep targeting director

WASHINGTON -- The CIA leadership maintained a stoic calm yesterday, while dissident agency officers kept up their whispering campaign against the director and Russian spooks beat the bushes for information after Tuesday's stinging congressional attack on CIA efficiency and leadership.

CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield dismissed as baseless reports that the director, R. James Woolsey, had already submitted his resignation or would do so soon. "That's a categorical `no,' " Mansfield said.

On Tuesday, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence accused the agency of major security lapses that had allowed confessed spy Aldrich Ames to supply Moscow with secrets for nine years and criticized Woolsey ...

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