CIA'S NEW SPY MASTER MADE HIS MARK BEHIND A DESK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000402720001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 2, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/11: CIA-RDP90-00965R000402720001-9
REUTERS
2 February 1987
HEADLINE: CIA'S NEW SPY tfASTER,'BADE HIS AR BEHIND A DES:(
BYLINE: -By Ch; istoptr Han son.
DATELINE-: WASHINGTON, Feb 2
America's new, master spy, Robert Gates,- rose to be nominated CIA director
tii'i if desk'wc k rather than C~oak-and-dagger CXN uit'S.
Gates, 43, named by the white House today to replace the ailing Stilliam
r s ey, his at A. J..' 1 1 d t d l } C
cas made iris mark at. tft agen-ey as a 's"M 4. 4..L 'lled aiKiri5tr$tf5r a,-,,d analyst y's of
data gathered by others, and was never a secret agent like many of his
p}^e( essor s, intelligence experts say.
Casey, who is suffering from brain cancer, was drawn into the world of secret
iiitgliigenc? as an f,perative uu?r'iins ''S3f u wai ii, ivt'ian 'is sa,'it Spies inrto Nazi
Germany for the O.S. Office of Strategic Services UOSJ,`, the CIA's
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prtedece'ssor.
Other former CIA directors -?- including William Colby, Richard Helms, and
Alley, Dulles