Concerning criminal investigations against CIA operatives

Seven former CIA directors letter to president Barack Obama

By David M. Dastych
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Warsaw, Poland
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I have just received a copy of a Letter to President Barack Obama, signed by seven former Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet, John Deutch, R.James Woolsey, William Webster and James R. Schlesinger. Herewith, I enclose a pdf copy of this letter, which I think is important and timely.


The Letter urges the President of the United States to re-close the criminal investigations against current or former CIA operatives involved in the interrogations of terrorist suspects after the 9/11 attacks against the U.S.A.

As a former long-time CIA asset, a covert intelligence agent operating against the Soviets and the communist interests in the 1970s and 1980s, then jailled in Communist Poland for that activity, and also as a volunteer cooperating with the CIA and other Western Intelligence Services in the 1990s and after 9/11/2001 against terrorist organizations and organized crime (monitoring illegal nuclear trade)—- I agree in principle with the argumentation presented in the Letter by seven former CIA Directors.

The very nature of the intelligence work provides for secrecy, “surprise and deception and on creating uncertainty in the mind of an enemyâ€