The arrogance of the clerks. (CIA director-designate Robert M. Gates and the politics of the intelligence community) (Cover Story)

From: National Review | Date: November 4, 1991| Author: Codevilla, Angelo | Copyright information

The selection of Robert M. Gates to head the CIA has unleashed a political storm over policy and practice of disinformation to overestimate the Soviet military threat. Liberal senators and former intelligence employees have reached for implausible arguments against successful efforts to end communism.

Someone in CIA has been relentlessly altering and withholding evidence to support his view of the world. But it wasn't Robert Gates.

THOSE WHO listened to the Senate hear...

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