Cia Pulls Plug On Site

The Central Intelligence Agency, that bastion of spy technology and computer wizardry, pulled the plug on its World Wide Web site on the Internet on Thursday after a hacker broke in and replaced it with a crude parody. CIA officials said their vandalized homepage "" altered to read Welcome to the Central Stupidity Agency "" was in no way linked to any mainframe computers containing classified national security information. The CIA closed it on Thursday morning while a task force looked into the security breach, CIA spokeswoman Jane Heishman said. Part of the hacker's text read Stop Lying. It's definitely a hacker who pierced the system's security, she said. The CIA web site (http:// www.odci.gov/cia) showcases unclassified information including spy agency press releases, officials' speeches, historical rundowns and the CIA's World Fact Book.