LONGTIME ANALYST IN CASEY'S JOB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000200880004-2
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 19, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEQRED^ PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
ON PAGE ,._.I- 19 December 1986
Gates was among a small group of
Longtime March administration officials that last arch presented t to Reagan what be-
came the final U.S. position toward
analyst in Ferdinand E. Marcos, the Philippine
leader who left his country after
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being defeated by Corazon C. Aquino.
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Gates also has publicly defended
the CIA's expansion of employment-
asey s job contract relationships with Ameri-
can university rofessors and busi-
y David Willman
Qutrer Washtnjton Bureau
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ness officials - a policy that has
drawn fire from critics who main-
tain the CIA is forbidden by law from
any domestic activities.
In an interview in January, Gates.
who has graduate degrees from
Georgetown University and Indiana
University and a bachelor's degree
from the College of William and
Mary, said that some academics were
more perceptive of the shifting
events in Iran during the late 1970s
than were the CIA's analysts.
WASHINGTON - Robert M. Gates,
he man who will run the CIA during
erved as a government intelligence
nalyst and adviser since 1969.
Gates, 43, has been deputy director
ince March, when President Reagan
tominated him to the position. Gates
has been in charge of the agency
trice Casey was hospitalized after
uttering two seizures Monday, ac-
ording to agency spokeswoman
Gates has been a witness before at
east one congressional committee
probing the Iran-contra affair, ac-
cording to congressional sources.
Those sources have said that Gates
testified to the House Intelligence
Committee that Marine Lt. Col. Oli-
ver L. North, the fired National Secu-
rity Council aide, discussed a link
between the contras and the Iranian
arms sales during a lunch with Casey
and other CIA officials Oct. 8 or 9.
Gates' testimony has raised ques-
tions about whether Casey accurate-
ly recounted the extent and timing
of his knowledge of the diversion of
arms-sale proceeds to the contras
when he testified on Capitol Hill
earlier this month.
A native of Wichita, Kan.. Gates
entered the agency's career training
program in 1966 and became an intel-
ligence analyst in 1969. He served on
the National Security Council staff
from 1974-1976 and was an adviser to
President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to
1979, when he returned to the CIA as
director of the agency's Strategic
Evaluation Center.
"There were scholars out there
saying the shah was in trouble, and
somehow that never got into any
official assessment," Gates said.
"What we are after is people who will
challenge us constructively, offer us
a different perspective, who will stir
up the pot a bit and who will help us
consider all points of view, including
the unorthodox."
Gates added, in an opinion column
published in the Washington Post on
Dec. 12, 1984:
"Despite imperfections. CIA and
the intelligence community produce
the best, most comprehensive and
most objective intelligence report-
ing in the world. We are working
every day to make it better, and
however surprising it may be to our
critics, we believe they contribute to
this process, and so we listen to
them."
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