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Secretive CIA Comes Out

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Tuesday, May 7, 2002
(08:21 ET)
By Paula Zahn
The Cable News Network

“Well, you'll notice those two reports are, in a way, contradictory. They both say he[Osama bin Laden]'s alive, but one says he's alive in the border area of Afghanistan, and the other says he's in Peshawar in Pakistan. That basically is where things stand.”

PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: It's time for our weekly intelligence brief. The once very secretive Central Intelligence Agency now seems to be operating everywhere out in the open. The agency is busy in Afghanistan and very active in the Middle East.

So what is behind the CIA's apparent switch from covert to overt?

CNN national security correspondent David Ensor joins us now from Washington -- good morning, David.

DAVID ENSOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Paula.

ZAHN: So, David, before we get to all of that, we understand there is some news about the case of convicted spy Robert Hanssen. What's going on?

ENSOR: Well, the sentencing memo has come out from the prosecutors. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. And they have said, as expected, that they recommend he be sentenced to life imprisonment rather than to the death penalty...
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Dan