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CAREER INTELLIGENCE OFFICER NAMED AS DEPUTY CIA CHIEF

Document Type: 
CREST [1]
Collection: 
General CIA Records [2]
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP99-01448R000301220062-3
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RIFPUB
Original Classification: 
K
Document Page Count: 
1
Document Creation Date: 
December 22, 2016
Document Release Date: 
August 15, 2012
Sequence Number: 
62
Case Number: 
Publication Date: 
March 6, 1986
Content Type: 
OPEN SOURCE
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/08/15: CIA-RDP99-01448R000301220062-3 11RTIULZ lr"j s_--u CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. ON PAGE 6 March 1986 Career intelligence officer named as deputy CIA chief Y"ibigton President Reagan has named-ca-__ reer_intelligence oflicer[Robert M. Gates as. the Central Intelligence "-Agency's deputy director, replacing John McMahon, who resigned "for personal reasons." Mr. McMahon's resignation, an- nounced by the White House late 'llyesday, was met with approval by two conservative lobbying groups that blame him for holding up supplies of better weaponry to the anticommunist resistance in Af- ghanistan. The Washington Post quoted sources as saying McMahon had conflicts with the Reagan adminis- tration over escalating US covert operations in the third world. Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/08/15: CIA-RDP99-01448R000301220062-3
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