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- CIA director R. James Woolsey died at 84 in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
- His wife Conchita Sarnoff Woolsey said he died of a stroke and had “Havana syndrome.”
- He led the CIA (1993-95) after serving as Navy undersecretary under Jimmy Carter and as U.S.–Soviet arms-talks ambassador under George H.W. Bush.
- He warned that Moscow’s $2.5 million payment to Aldrich Ames highlighted spy threats and cautioned against paranoia-fueling security measures.
