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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Scandal in Turkey: Yasemin Çonger, Chris Mason, and the C.I.A.

Scandal in Turkey: Yasemin Çonger, Chris Mason, and the C.I.A.

The Turkish media are rife with speculation that a former U.S. Navy and State Department officer who is married to Yasemin Çongar, once the Washington bureau chief of the Turkish newspaper Milliyet and now affiliated with Taraf, is a C.I.A. agent. The main evidence linking the two has been provided by an April 2002 article that Çonger published in the Foreign Service Journal, in which she identified herself as being “married to FSO Chris Mason”.

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