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James Woolsey, the former CIA director who defended it during one of its biggest espionage scandals, has died at 84

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James Woolsey, the former CIA director who steered America's top intelligence agency through the uneasy years after the Cold War and defended it during one of its biggest espionage scandals, has died at 84.