Keywords: Rendition, National Security Council, Torture, Leaks, John Kerry

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The Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in The Washington Post about the agency's [alleged] secret overseas prisons for terror suspects, intelligence officials said Friday.

The C.I.A. would not identify the officer, but several government officials said it was Mary O. McCarthy, a veteran intelligence analyst who until 2001 was senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council, where she served under President Bill Clinton and into the Bush administration.

Ms. McCarthy's departure followed an internal investigation by the C.I.A.'s Security Center, as part of an intensified effort that began in January to scrutinize employees who had access to particularly classified information. She was given a polygraph examination, confronted about answers given to the polygraph examiner and confessed, the government officials said. On Thursday, she was stripped of her security clearance and escorted out of C.I.A. headquarters.

"A C.I.A. officer has been fired for unauthorized contact with the media and for the unauthorized disclosure of classified information," said a C.I.A. spokesman, Paul Gimigliano.

Public records show that Ms. McCarthy contributed $2,000 in 2004 to the presidential campaign of John Kerry, the Democratic nominee.

www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/washington/22leak.html

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Contributor Occupation Date Amount Recipient
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MCCARTHY, MARY O CENTER FOR STRATE 10/5/2004 $5,000 Democratic
BETHESDA,MD 20817 & INTERNATIONA Party of Ohio
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MCCARTHY, MARY O U.S. GOVERNMENT/ 3/14/2004 $2,000 Kerry, John
BETHESDA,MD 20817 ANALYST
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