During the Bosnian War , the CIA ignored signs within and without of the Srebrenica massacre . On July 13 , 1995 , when the press report about the massacre came out , the CIA received pictures from spy satellite of prisoners guarded by men with guns in Srebrenica . The CIA had no agents on the ground to verify the report . Two weeks after news reports of the slaughter , the CIA sent a U-2 to photograph it . A week later the CIA completed its report on the matter . The final report came to the Oval Office on August 4 , 1995 . In short , it took three weeks for the agency to confirm that one of the largest mass murders in Europe since the Second World War had occurred . Another CIA mistakes in Balkan during Clinton presidency occurred in NATO bombing of Serbia . To force Slobodan Milošević to withdraw his troops from Kosovo . The CIA had been invited to provide military targets for bombings . The agency 's analysts used tourist maps to fix the location . However , the agency incorrectly provided the coordinates of the Chinese Embassy as a target resulting in its bombing . The CIA had misread the target as Slobodan Milosevic 's military depot
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
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