CIA Boss Accused of Rape

In a case likely to inflame opinion against Americans in the Muslim world, the Justice Department is investigating the CIA station chief in Algeria for allegedly slipping drugs into two Muslim women’s drinks and then raping them, ABC News reports. Officials have discovered more than a dozen secretly recorded videotapes of the CIA officer engaging in sex with various women, including one in which an alleged victim appears to be “semi-conscious.” Investigators are concerned that the station chief may have committed similar crimes while stationed in Egypt, as well. The accused rapist, whose name has not been made public, is a 41-year-old convert to Islam. “This will be seen as the typical ugly American,” former CIA officer Bob Baer said, adding that the failure to discover the alleged rapist’s behavior sooner was “indicative of personnel problems of all sorts that run through the agency.”