He formed a small band of agency officers who quickly got behind the war in Afghanistan.

One senior agency officer insisted that the story was apocryphal, but others said it was true.

He later became the agency's point man for outside investigations into the Iran-contra affair, in which three agency officers were charged with crimes.

Indeed, some present and former agency officers still think he wrote the fax.

He also disciplined six other employees, saying that agency officers "at all levels of responsibility" contributed to the bombing.

County officials and agency officers also agreed on other plans to improve and restructure the health care system.

The reason, according to former agency officers, is changing attitudes.

The indictment said that in 1986, as part of the conspiracy, he directed an agency officer to meet with and train contras.

Another official said the incident was without a normal frame of reference for many agency officers.

There's an agency officer coming for an interview this week.