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Dead Drop: June 23

Dead Drop: June 23

OPEN SECRETS: Don’t schedule any meetings with top Brazilian officials if you have anything to hide.  The New York Times this week reported on a small brouhaha in Brasilia when the country’s top intelligence official, General Sergio Westphalen Etchegoyen, apparently met with the CIA’s station chief.  Under Brazilian law, cabinet officials are required to disclose their schedules – and thus Etchegoyen’s staff revealed the name of the undercover CIA officer.

ROLLING STONE:  Some folks have been scratching their heads as to why conspiracy-theorist filmmaker Oliver Stone recorded a sympathetic series of interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  There is absolutely no connection, Stone says, to the fact that his son Sean works for “RT” – formerly Russia Today, which essentially makes the younger Stone an employee of Putin.

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