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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tenet's reform program for the CIA did what?

2. Tenet was frustrated by what attention the Clinton Cabinet provided the al Qaeda threat?

3. How did Tenet view terrorism in terms of the level of threat it represented to the U.S. and the world?

4. What was the response to information provided by Pillar's Counterterrorist Center?

5. Who was the White House national security adviser between 1993 and 1997?

Short Essay Questions

1. What support did CIA field operatives reportedly seek from the White House team of Richard Clarke?

2. How did the Taliban take their final major prize taken in northern Afghanistan?

3. What plan was agreed to between Pakistani intelligence director Naseem Rana and CIA station chief Schroen regarding the capture of Mir Amal Kasi?

4. How was the Afghan war changing by 1999?

5. Why did Schroen encounter difficulty recovering CIA Stinger missiles from the Taliban?

6. What position did U.S. government Afghan specialist Zalmay Khalilzad take shortly following the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban?

7. How was Clinton's visit to Pakistan among the strangest that presidential history has to offer?

8. What took place in the Oval Office meeting on 2 December 1998 in the early afternoon?

9. What was part of the problem when Bush came into office in 2001?

10. How did the "bin Laden Issue Station" evolve?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the "hermetic culture" the FBI had become infamous for by the beginning 1990s? What problems did it cause?

Essay Topic 2

What was the new crop of terrorists that American intelligence recognized had emerged by mid-1995?

Essay Topic 3

What was the significance when the CIA re-established contact with Ahmed Shah Massoud in September 1996?

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