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Woolsey’s Legacy in a Shifting World | US News
Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, who guided the agency through a pivotal post-Cold War era and warned of emerging threats like terrorism, has died at 84 from a stroke. His wife revealed he’d been battling declining health linked to Havana Syndrome, a mysterious illness affecting U.S. officials abroad. Woolsey, a bipartisan national security veteran who served under multiple presidents, took charge in 1993 amid the Soviet collapse and navigated the fallout from the Aldrich Ames spy scandal with a focus on systemic reform rather than scapegoating. A decorated Navy officer and arms…
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