Excellent choice.
5 years is a long time to wait before a start.
Replacing a Yalie with a graduate of Duquesne University... what is the CIA coming to?
"Former intelligence officials told CNN that many people inside the CIA are "relieved" that Goss and his aides -- called "the Gosslings" by CIA insiders -- are going, a reflection of the ill will that still persists over the earlier departures of senior officials."
A sad day in my opinion. I will continue to view what cost did in a positive light---despite the virtual certainty that his character will be 100% assassinated over the next few days. In fact, that very assassination strengthens my confidence that when he was doing was what needed to be done.
Hopefully, another will at some point take up the task he began and continue it---to clean out the mass in the CIA.
Spooks rule!!!
It was February in ...68-69-70...somewhere in ther and pouring down rain. Because of shortages I was never issued a regulation AF raincoat. I had a fever but didn't want to miss AF drills so I grabbed one from home htat kinda looked like one and went. I was stopped outside the AF building and asked why I was out of uniform. I tried to explain but the 3 who stopped be wanted to have some fun...made me take it off and stand in the rain.
It just so happened a couple of minutes later Maj Dinley - the head of the ROTC program waalked by while I was standing there. He asked me what the *H* I was doing, and after listening to me explain he took me into the infirmary, searched around and founr the three upper classemen who stopped me. It all blew over and I got a week off cuz I got REALLY sick. In fact IIRC - maybe not - I ended up with a case of chicken pox and was off for quite a while, which didn't help my chances with ROTC.
I'm >pretty sure< hayden was invovled but I cant' recall if he was one of the guys who stopped me or if he was on my side.
Cool to have bumped into him in the past hotugh.
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