During the Reagan Administration, he was a National Intelligence Officer at the CIA and subsequently a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

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The danger of emerging ballistic missile threats was underscored by Dr. Larry Gershwin , National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs at the Central Intelligence Agency.

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The problem was compounded by others Negroponte also brought in from State, notably his assigning of the appallingly inadequate former U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Kenneth Brill, as the Director of the Counter-Proliferation Center and of Foggy Bottom "expert" Vann Van Diepen as the National Intelligence Officer for non-proliferation matters.

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According to press accounts of the congressional briefings presented in recent days by a 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (who has served for the past three years as its senior national intelligence officer for Latin America), Aristide takes medicine to treat "psychotic manic depression" which can have such symptoms as suicidal tendencies, delusions of persecution and hallucinations.

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Worse yet, the fact that it is one of the first products of the newly "reformed" intelligence community suggests that - far from reducing the dangers of strategic surprise and unconnected "dots" - the Foreign Service Officer-dominated Director of National Intelligence bureaucracy is going to exacerbate past failings and mistakes.

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