FORMER CIA MOSCOW CHIEF, BY HIS REMARKS, SHOWS WHY THE CIA IS FECKLESS

My first and only contact with Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, who served as the CIA’s Chief of Station circa 2000, was at a conference hosted by my former CIA classmate, Valerie Plame, five years ago. Rolf is a very pleasant, soft-spoken man, but is blinded by an old Cold War view of the world and cannot see Russia straight.

In Rolf’s world, Putin is bad. Very, ve…