Former Drug Enforcement Administration officer Richard Horn has just about wrapped up his long legal saga.

Horn filed suit in 1994 against CIA and State Department employees he said eavesdropped on his telephone conversations while he was based in Burma. Until relatively recently, this lawsuit was under seal. But after Judge Royce Lamberth brought the case into the open, and raised serious questions about the integrity of top CIA employees, there developed -- as if by magic! -- considerable momentum for a settlement.

Now, in an Oct. 27 court filing, Horn's attorney Brian Leighton noted that the parties have "very recently" entered into a settlement agreement. As part of that agreement, Leighton filed a request to withdraw his earlier request that Judge Lamberth impose civil sanctions on former CIA Director George Tenet and others. In an accompanying Oct. 27 filing that withdraws an earlier request for attorneys fees, Leighton declared that "the settlement agreement and the stipulated dismissal with prejudice will be filed with the Court within the next few days."