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Got to get back to you about the "sending" of "Mr. Wilson".

I have read he doesn't know who sent him, VP Cheney sent him, his wife sent him. However, it is what "Mr. Wilson" did upon his return, no report submitted to VP Cheney or CIA or WIFE but NYTimes.

So maybe the NYTimes sent him.

> So maybe the NYTimes sent him.

If so, that might connect with the Seymour Hersh question I raise above, as well as Jayson Blair. When Hersh was at the "Times" he cultivated a lot of contacts in the CIA, one of which, Bill Colby, played a role in dismantling the Counterintelligence department by removing James Angleton. Colby was part of a faction in the CIA that wanted to move the Agency away from Angelton's anti-Communist emphasis towards a more "liberal" approach in keeping with the new detente policy and the post-60s spirit of "diversity". To accomplish this he would leak info to Hersh about sensitive CIA operations, then use the resulting controversy as a pretext to replace Angleton's staff with his own personnel. (There's some info on this in Mark Riebling, "Wedge", Chapter 16.) As I'm working through this I'm starting to suspect some of Hersh's allies at the NYT are using Plame and Wilson for similar purposes.