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   WASHINGTON – The House Intelligence Committee found the CIA at fault in   
   its investigation of sexual misconduct in the spy agency after failing to   
   properly address employee allegations of assault and harassment, according   
   to an interim report released Monday.   
      
   “Over the course of the investigation, the Committee discovered that CIA   
   failed to handle   
   allegations of sexual assault and harassment within its workforce in the   
   professional and uniform   
   manner that such sensitive allegations warrant,” the committee wrote in   
   the eight-page document.   
      
   The panel interviewed 26 whistleblowers, received 15 briefings by “a   
   number of diverse components of CIA” and reviewed over 4,000 pages of   
   records produced by The Company.   
      
   The committee found that the CIA’s insufficient policies for processing   
   allegations led to an environment that discouraged victims from making   
   reports — both because they felt their cases would not be properly   
   addressed and because there was no way to do so anonymously.   
      
   “Victims were aware of little to no accountability or punishment for the   
   perpetrators of the assaults or harassment often because of an inadequate   
   investigatory process,” the report said. “Victims were deterred from   
   coming forward because victims did not have anonymity and were unable to   
   seek confidential assistance.”   
      
   When workers did come forward, the CIA’s investigatory mechanism was   
   “inadequate” — while employees had been given “ineffective training … on   
   how to identify and report cases of sexual assault and harassment,”   
   according to the committee.   
      
   “There was an inconsistent approach to, or lack of, timely coordination   
   with law enforcement,” the report added.   
      
   The issues were apparently widely recognized by individual employees, “who   
   recognized the need to improve CIA’s response to sexual assault and   
   harassment, while maintaining the necessary posture to prepare officers   
   for the dangerous world they are asked to operate in,” according to   
   lawmakers.   
      
   The report was released after a series of high-profile sexual assault   
   cases surfaced late last year involving CIA employees.   
      
   In October, a woman who was training to become a spy filed a lawsuit   
   accusing the agency of attempting to cover up her sexual assault by   
   “repeatedly … dissuad[ing] her from lodging a criminal complaint — to the   
   point of criminal witness-tampering — and also ordered her to make false   
   statements to law enforcement.”   
      
   The following month, ex-CIA officer Brian Jeffrey Raymond pleaded guilty   
   in a case that alleged he had drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of   
   women dating back to 2006 while he was working for the US government in   
   Mexico and Peru.   
      
   Raymond was found with nearly 500 videos and photographs he took of nude,   
   unconscious women, including many in which he can be seen opening their   
   eyelids, groping or straddling them, prosecutors said at the time.   
      
   The committee proposed legislation last year to address these concerns as   
   part of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which became law in   
   December.   
      
   Those efforts include the creation of a new special victim investigator   
   position – staffed by a federal law enforcement officer – to investigate   
   all sexual assault and harassment claims at the CIA.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/us-news/cia-botched-sex-assault-harassment-   
   reports-house-intelligence-committee-finds/   
      
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