Prince MUQRAN BIN ABDUL AZIZ (Director General, General Intelligence Directorate, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia): We're really hoping that His Excellency, Nawaz Sharif, honors this agreement.

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He also held meetings with Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the country's army chief, and Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, director-general of the ISI intelligence agency.

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The four members of the executive board will be the FBI director, the deputy director of central intelligence, the deputy secretary of defense and a representative of the attorney general.

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It complements and supplements, rather than duplicates the oversight roles of the Director of National Intelligence, Department and Agency Inspectors General and General Counsels, and the Congressional Oversight Committees.

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President Clinton has nominated General John Gordon (USAF), who is presently the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, to head it up.

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But as George Tenet, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has argued, an intelligence director with only general supervisory powers could weaken co-ordination not strengthen it.

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