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‘Langley Won’t Tell Us’

How I fought the intelligence turf wars — and lost.

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How I fought the intelligence turf wars -- and lost.

How I fought the intelligence turf wars — and lost.

Ron Capps is peacekeeping program manager at Refugees International. He served in Afghanistan as a soldier and in Iraq as a Foreign Service officer.
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