The parallel was drawn for me this week by John Maguire, a former CIA paramilitary covert-action officer, who served in the contras program in Nicaragua and later in the Middle East. ???At the end of the day, Putin is a case officer,??? says Maguire. ???He watched what we did in the 1980s, and now he???s playing it back against us.??? From the beginning in Crimea, Putin ran the campaign there as a