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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000401700008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 27, 1991
• Content Type: MEMO

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car.ferances where they will be given sensitive information picked up by u.C
aove-rn-ment intelligence services during routine military and political
intalligance gathering operation;, according to Lt. Gen. Norman Wood, director
,:if the. intelligence community's central staff.
"This is a way that we can provide intalliger?.Ce to a Company that has the
;c?arance and sends someone to the syrnporiuir.. We are rot picking and Choosing
the company that gets it. The agenda is made ava.ilablo to every coxpany, " said
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Wood was quoted in are interview by Signal magazine, published by the Armed
17.7; =as Comm unicat tons and Electronics Association, an association in rairf&x,
V%., composed of companies in the electronics industry.
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r.fcoi'ihi2liion ' is mind blGWang. This Is a whole now ball game as far as theme
JA r.ta.ligene co3mmunity is concerned," said Cob Williams, who irit*rvt.wed Wood
for .iii gr.al .
"Wt. are going to be spying on our tallies, j" buddies," he said-
Mark Mansfield, a spokesman for the Central T.ntelltge.nca Agancy (CIA) and
tho intelligence community staff, in Langley, Va. , was unable tee corement. Wood
d cl ir, to comment to Defense Neus.
Wood's statement was reinforced by Robert Gates, romir.ated for^ the post cf
?iirozctor of the Central /ntalligarc? Agency, in his confirmation ttastimony
c`GI-g t ha ,^,nal;;E select Committee oil Intelligence. When askod on Sept . 23 by
~r.. John Warner, R-Va., whether he aupported the use of the fr.talliger.ce
agencies to holster V.S. international economic competitiveness, Gates said
Accardir. to Warner, ``We've got to focus more of our assets in the
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