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...still more power for the CIA chief by proposing that he control the entire $28 billion annual intelligence budget, most of which heretofore was under the control of the Department of Defense. It didn't take a master spy to find out the winner in this game: John Deutch, only the second director of Central Intelligence to hold Cabinet rank, and clearly becoming the most powerful spymaster Washington has ever seen...
...Deutch has been DCI for only one year, but rebuilding a CIA crippled by scandal and low morale isn't enough to satisfy his ambitions. His goal is to consolidate personal control over Washington's sprawling intelligence community, which consists of no fewer than 28 separate and often feuding organizations. Last week the President and the Senate gave him a giant boost toward that end. Indeed, Deutch is in the midst of one of the most impressive power grabs ever seen in Washington. At one point during last week's hearing, intelligence chairman Arlen Specter said the committee was "trying...
...sheer force of personality, Deutch has become the most well-connected spymaster since Allen Dulles ran the CIA for Dwight Eisenhower (Dulles' brother John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State). Deutch is also well on his way to becoming even more powerful than Ronald Reagan's notoriously influential spy chief, Bill Casey, who was the first director to hold Cabinet rank. When Deutch appeared reluctant to quit as Deputy Defense Secretary for the CIA job, Clinton dialed up the pressure by again upgrading it to a Cabinet post. Unlike Casey, Deutch ostensibly refrains from advocating policy with the President, only...
...Deutch encourages such admiration by spreading himself thick across the corridors of power. His squash partner is Clinton's Oxford classmate and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Deutch likes playing hardball. William Perry, the Secretary of Defense, is not only Deutch's ex-boss at the Pentagon but also his former business partner. Deutch knows how to make stone-faced Secretary of State Warren Christopher laugh. At the Prime Rib, a tony Washington restaurant, he swaps spy stories with Senator Specter. Says Talbott: "The first words that come to mind when you interact with John: energy, enthusiasm, focus...
...have disrupted the global network Libya set up to smuggle in foreign workers and equipment for the project. But Clinton aides concede Gaddafi remains determined to finish the facility, and the best Washington has done as yet is delay the inevitable. Last month in congressional testimony, CIA Director John Deutch admitted that Libya was still busy building what he called "the world's largest underground chemical-weapons plant...