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...established in 1946 so that one person would oversee these unruly organizations. In the decades since, however, no director has had the inclination or clout to rein in these agencies. Deutch is doing just that. Instead of becoming bogged down in CIA business, as past chiefs have, Deutch has left the day-to-day operation of the agency to his executive director, Nora Slatkin, so he can spend most of his time overseeing the rest of the community...
Gregarious and invariably rumpled, Deutch, 57, appears capable of literally getting his arms around any problem. A bear of a man, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, he dominates almost any room he walks into, wrapping his thick arm around a shoulder to cajole or bully a colleague into giving him what he wants. Given virtual carte blanche by the White House to reform the agency, he has cultivated the congressional intelligence committees that are also demanding change. But most important have been his ties with the Defense Department...
Upon his appointment, Deutch immediately cleaned out the entire CIA top management and replaced it with a team of ex-Pentagon and congressional staff members. In June 1995, a month after settling into the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, he summoned the Pentagon's top intelligence chiefs to his office for a grilling on their fat budgets. "It reminded me of when I took my orals for my master's degree," says retired Lieut. General James Clapper, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. With Perry's help, Deutch next set up a Joint Space Management Board to control...
Meanwhile, Deutch still faces opposition. Despite Perry's backing, the Pentagon's military brass is fighting a rear-guard action to limit Deutch's control over their spy operations. Veteran CIA hands and Congressmen, on the other hand, are worried that Deutch is going overboard, satisfying the Pentagon's hunger for battlefield secrets at the expense of collecting political and diplomatic intelligence that his principal customer, the President, might need...
...When Deutch fired two senior officers in connection with the Guatemala scandal last year, the ranks grumbled that such punishment for old operations now deemed politically incorrect would chill risk taking in the future. (Indeed, many senior officers buy $1 million insurance policies in case the agency abandons them to lawsuits.) The agency "still needs James Bonds," says a House Intelligence Committee member, Congressman Bill Richardson. "[It needs] spies who do the dirty work that needs to be done." The CIA's deputy director for clandestine operations, David Cohen, insists in an exclusive interview with TIME that his spies...