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“The 75th Anniversary of the CIA” – with former Director Robert Gates

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What Was It Like Being a Director of the National Security Office?

I became director, i became d c i six weeks before the collapse of the soviet union. I think we recognized that with the growing thread of terrorism and proliferationnd and so on, that the kind of a targets that the d o used to meet on the diplomatic circuit were not the targets we were going to need in dealing with terrorism and so on. So at one point i had something like twent two dozen different task forces working. We re structured the we re structured the national reconnaissance office. We made a lot of changes both on the analytical side and on the operation side. The other thing i did i i drafted a memo for president bush to sign to all the cabinet officers,

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