CAUTIOUS GATES CALLED CONTRAST TO CASEY STYLE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000301260076-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2013
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• Publication Date: February 3, 1987
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20- Year Career Man
Cautious Gates
Called Contrast
to Casey Style
LCS ANGELES TI'IES
3 February L987
CIA under Casey became more
deeply involved in the Iran and
contra scandals than has been
admitted. Although Gates served as
deputy director for intelligence
during the period, he so far has not
been tainted by the affairs.
'Careful Analyst'
'' He's a very competent,
straightforward person. a person of
integrity. He's a careful analyst.
He's fair-minded," said Michael
Oksenberg, a University o
an rofessor an ormer co-work-
er at the National Security Council.
' He represents to me the best of
the profession, and it's a demanding
profession."
"I think he's clean." one former
top CIA official said Monday. "I
think he'll be questioned closely"
during confirmation hearings by
wary senators, "but many of them
will be relieved to have somebody
who's clearly not political."
For someone reportedly so apo-
litical, Gates' ascent through the
espionage bureaucracy has been
unusually rapid.
Casey already had been retired
from the CIA's predecessor, the
wartime Office of Strategic Servic-
es, for 20 years when Gates joined
the CIA in 1966 as an intelligence
analyst. In 19^4, the year he ac-
quired his doctorate from George-
town University in Washington,
Gates moved from the CIA to the
National Security Counca. where
he remained through the Gerald R.
Ford and Jimmy Carter adminis-
trations.
By the time he left the NSC in
1979. he was executive assistant to
then-National Security Adviser
Zbigniew Brzezinski. controlling
the paper flow within the White
House national security bureaucra-
cy and acting as an informal advis-
er on Soviet affairs.
Back in the CIA under Reagan.
he served first as the agencys top
Soviet analyst and then, in 1982. as
deputy director for .:te!ligence. a
year rater he added the post of
director of the National inteili-
gence Council. the body that over-
sees the assembly of intelligence,
"estimates" of worldwide political
and military situations.
It is in the world of number-
crunching and thoughtful forecast-
ing-and not dark-alley spying
missions-that Gates has excelled.
"Gates has demonstrated repeat-
edly a very tough mind and he sees
the role of intelligence agencies as
making judgments, not just writing
By MICHAE WINES. fully
three decades younger than Rea-
gan, and years the junior of other
intelligence heavyweights such as
National Security Adviser Frank C.
Carlucci. The odds that he will be
replaced by the next President,. in
about two years, also limit his
power to change the intelligence
community's course, they said..
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Staff writers Robert C. Toth and
Karen Tumuity contributed to this
story.
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