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• Kissinger reportedly covered up PLO assassination of ambassador

  - 2008-09-29

  "Henry Kissinger instructed the CIA to continue diplomatic contacts with Yassir Arafat's PLO representatives before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, even after Arafat ordered the kidnapping and murder of the American ambassador and his deputy in Khartoum, Sudan." So reported the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on September 1, 2008. According...

  Tags: ambassador, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Leadership

• Top Chefs Across America Selected for New Culinary Program from The Culinary Institute of America and Hormel Foods

  - 2008-09-18

  Innovation-Focused Program Begins in October AUSTIN, Minn. -- Dennis Goettsch, vice president of marketing for the foodservice division of Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), and Dr. Victor Gielisse, associate vice president of The Culinary Institute of America CIA, are pleased to announce the 16 chefs selected for the inaugural...

  Tags: America, CIA, food, innovation, Leadership, Manufacturing, Strategy

• John Crisp: Old school guidance about new Cold War

  - 2008-08-27

  RUSSIA'S INVASION OF Georgia coincided with my reading of a couple of books that turned out to be instructive about that event: "When Presidents Lie," by Eric Alterman; and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner's "Legacy of Ashes," a history of the Central Intelligence Agency. These books...

  Tags: CIA, Cuba, Georgia, Leadership, missile, Russia, SECURITY

• CIA launches leadership course for professional chefs

  - 2008-07-28

  HYDE PARK, N.Y. -- The Culinary Institute of America will offer a leadership program for professional chefs at its campus here this fall. Sixteen chefs with five or more years of experience will be chosen to attend the Culinary Enrichment and Innovation Program --four three-day sessions conducted over 18...

  Tags: CIA, Leadership

• Hormel, CIA partner for culinary enrichment program

  - 2008-07-28

  AUSTIN, MINN. -- Hormel Foods Corp. has partnered with the Culinary Institute of America to develop a leadership program for commercial and noncommercial chefs called the Culinary Enrichment and Innovation Program. The program will include four throe-day sessions at the CIA's Hyde Park, N.Y., campus over a period of 18...

  Tags: CIA, Hormel Foods Corp., Leadership, Quality

• The Culinary Institute of America and Hormel Foods Create the Culinary Enrichment and Innovation Program

  - 2008-07-09

  Program for Top Chefs is First of its Kind AUSTIN, Minn. -- Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) and the company's Foodservice division have announced a partnership with The Culinary Institute of America CIA to provide a unique leadership program to an elite class of commercial and non-commercial chefs from...

  Tags: CIA, Leadership, Manufacturing, Strategy

• Constant trouble

  - 2008-07-01

  A salute to your penetrating piece on Haiti's loathsome Toto Constant, whom the Clinton administration referred to as the leader of a "gang of thugs." Still, even after he threatened the safety of a senior US embassy official, Constant was able to slip into the US. The Clinton administration refused...

  Tags: CIA, Leadership

• Al-Qaeda near defeat in Iraq, on defensive globally: CIA chief

  - 2008-05-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — CIA chief Michael Hayden, in an interview published Friday, said Al-Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive elsewhere, including the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. CIA director Michael Hayden told the Washington Post major gains have been made against Al-Qaeda's allies in the...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, CIA, defeat, Government, Iraq, Leadership

• Uruguay seeks secret US archives on 'dirty war'

  - 2008-04-07

  MONTEVIDEO AFP — President Tabare Vazquez has asked US President George W. Bush to declassify US documents on Uruguay's "dirty war" (1973-1985) for possible clues to a 1978 murder and other crimes, his office said Monday. "My government hopes it can count on the cooperation of the US government...

  Tags: CIA, Government, Leadership, president, SOFTWARE

• 'Scooter' Libby stripped of his D.C. law license

  - 2008-03-21

  WASHINGTON AP -- Former top White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was banned Thursday from practicing law in the nation's capital following his perjury conviction in the case of a CIA operative's leaked identity. The disbarment order of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals had been...

  Tags: CIA, conviction, Government, Leadership, Washington