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...soon discover that the same techniques that helped him survive before have left him open to attack now. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which this week began hearings on the Gates nomination, has been looking into his performance both as CIA deputy director for intelligence under William Casey between 1982 and 1986 and as chairman of the interagency National Intelligence Council during much of the same period. In those twin jobs Gates was responsible for the integrity of the analytical reports that the CIA and NIC produced. Yet a number of current and former U.S. intelligence officers have accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Bob Gates Serve His Masters Too Well? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...past, much of the blame for "politicizing" intelligence was pinned on Casey. But the Senate intelligence committee is examining the extent to which Gates himself was responsible and failed to stand between Casey and intelligence analysts. Observes Thomas Polgar, a retired senior CIA officer who was a consultant to the agency in this period: "You never heard about a Gates position that differed from Casey's. Either he sincerely believed in Casey's ideology or he catered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Bob Gates Serve His Masters Too Well? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...This false unanimity was not an accident," charges a former official. "It was the personal creation of Mr. Gates." One agency that persisted in its dissent was the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, headed by Morton Abramowitz. Only when Gates called directly to say that Casey wanted no footnotes did Abramowitz finally yield. In their defense, those who gave in may not have understood that a radical change in U.S. policy was at stake. Gates has testified that even he was in the dark. The Senate intelligence committee has obtained documentary evidence, however, suggesting that Gates knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Bob Gates Serve His Masters Too Well? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...future, however, has been overshadowed by questions about Gates' past, most notably the extent of his involvement in the Iran-contra affair. That issue scuttled his first shot at the job four years ago, when Ronald Reagan proposed him as agency chief following the resignation of William Casey. Gates had to withdraw because of skepticism in Congress over his claim that Casey had kept him in the dark about the contra-supply operation. The job went instead to then FBI Director William Webster. When Webster announced his retirement in May, Bush nominated Gates in the hope that Congress had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intelligence: Crisis in Spooksville | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...Proof that the late CIA director William Casey conspired to have U.S. hostages held by Iran until after the 1980 election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Fears and Choices on the Road to '92 | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

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