A former CIA employee who claims he was fired from the agency because he is a religious Jew was featured on a segment of CBS’ “60 Minutes.” Adam Ciralsky charged that the agency’s counterintelligence investigators ignored all secular information about him while focusing on his religion. Meanwhile, a CIA memo charged that Ciralsky failed two lie-detector tests about whether he gave or sold U.S. secrets to Israel.
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