Message-ID: <199807151326.OAA22086@linux.lisse.na> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:26:18 +0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LINUX.LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: EU-funded Jobs in Africa To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
In message <mailto:35AC74D5.BEB9BDA6@mail.ptl.com.mt>, vdimitroff@MAIL.PTL.COM.MT writes: > Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>
> > The question is why even junior positions at USAID
> > need to hold high security clearences?
>
> Come on, Doc! Are you seriously asking this question,
I I thought about marking it as a rethoric question, but thought it was obvious enough :-)-O
> or trying to raise awareness that these people are (often) asked to
> carry out 'secondary' duties and (sometimes) full-time employed by
> other agencie(s), somewhat less philanthropic... If the US need
> several hundred cloak'n'dagger people in a particular country they
> can't stuff them all into their embassy, like the Russians used to
> do, can they?
Personally I don't think they recruit spooks via Internet Mailing List ads...
el