He told of a taped conversion between two Czech Communist officials. They mentioned that he was expected to attend a meeting at a certain place which was reserved for the recruitment of Communist bloc agents. In February there was another curious incident involving a retired CIA official. This particular fellow was genuinely alarmed at information he had on President Clinton's ties to the Russian security services. When pressed by a famous journalist to provide details, the CIA man shrank away.
Publicity is death to people involved in secret intelligence work.
And now, more recently, I have received information from a third source inside U.S. intelligence. His story is even more fantastic. It is so fantastic that I dare not repeat what he reported. Naturally, everyone on the political left and in the center will denounce the very idea that the president has secret Marxist sympathies that have compromised him. Some would say that repeating such rumors is irresponsible.