article_snippet: The pair had planned to spy overseas together as a 'tandem couple,' but haven't spoken to the woman since A former uncover CIA officer firing, Lawsuit says.
article_snippet: In March 2011, Charles claims that a senior manager 'took the monstrous step' of ordering the woman to cease all contact with a senior manager ', threatening the woman with an assignment at CIA headquarters in Washington if the woman disobeyed, effectively an end to the woman career overseas, reports the Daily Beast.
article_snippet: Charles says Charles is suffering depression as a result of having no contact with Charles fiancée who Charles 'thinks about [the woman] every day and misses the woman as much today as on the first day of Charles forced separation from the woman.' the suit also accuses CIA of illegally barring the former officer from publishing the former officer novel, tentatively titled Madhouse:
article_snippet: The suit says the leader of CIA's Global Deployment Initiative — the leader of the CIA's Global Deployment Initiative main non-official cover program — tried to get a charge Charles fired in 2009, but a CIA board declined to take that step.
article_snippet: After that, his lawsuit says, another senior officer, who headed the Special Activities Division —
article_snippet: CIA's paramilitary arm — wrote a memo alleging that a charge Charles had in the past fudged expense accounts.
article_snippet: his lawsuit alleges that the officer who wrote the memo, who is not identified by name, had a 'checkered career' that included a drinking problem, and was asked to retire amid sexual harassment allegations.
article_snippet: The head of the Global Deployment Initiative was a subpar officer who also abused alcohol, his lawsuit alleges, claiming that the 'multibillion-dollar' NOC program 'was shot through with waste, fraud, and abuse.'
article_snippet: , his lawsuit says, a charge Charles was told a charge Charles could not publish any of his lawsuit for fear a charge Charles true name, which a charge Charles used while working undercover for CIA, would be revealed.
highlights_snippet: Lawsuit also accuses CIA of illegally barring the pseudonym Mack L. Charles novel, tentatively titled Madhouse: