I had a meeting Sunday the 15th with a very high-ranking intelligence source who regularly participates in meetings with the chief of staff, prime minister and minister of defense, and he's one of the few people in the inner circle.
"Chain of Command" is a whispering gallery peopled by phantoms: a "former U.S. ambassador in the Middle East told me," "one recently retired senior military officer... said at the time," "a high-ranking intelligence official similarly noted". Hersh has sources not just in Washington, but also in Syria, Turkey, Pakistan and Israel.
A high-ranking intelligence officer gave figures of that closely matched Banlaoi's records.
Indeed, it is highly unlikely that a high-ranking intelligence officer would ever sit down with a man like Lo Cha Thao and provide such an offer.
Investigators have said that Mr. Lim, as a high-ranking intelligence official, aided in the transfer of a portion of the money.
Claiming that the arrest was illegal, Mr. Chung, a high-ranking intelligence official during South Korea's dictatorship, barricaded himself with supporters in the headquarters of the opposition Grand National Party.
Savage was an explosives expert and McCann was "a high-ranking intelligence operative"; both McCann and Farrell had previously served prison sentences for offences relating to explosives.
Finney, 75, will play a high ranking intelligence official, with powers that the Mail speculates include supervisory duties over M, played by Dench.
But U.S. agents could not access the core machines that ran Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, said another source, a former high-ranking intelligence official who was briefed on the program.
American soldiers also captured a former high-ranking intelligence officer in Saddam Hussein's government, Maj.
Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri, the deputy director of Saudi intelligence, and other high-ranking intelligence officials.
