6 May 1998
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Subject: 1998-05-05 Snider named Inspector General at the CIA
Keywords: Executive-Act, Government, Nomination, Organization, Personnel,
Security, South-Region, Virginia
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
___________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release May 5, 1998
PRESIDENT CLINTON
NAMES L. BRITT SNIDER AS INSPECTOR GENERAL
OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
The President today announced his intent to nominate L. Britt
Snider as Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Mr. L. Britt Snider, of McLean, Virginia, is currently Special
Counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He has been a Visiting Senior
Fellow at the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the CIA, and a
Visiting Mellon Scholar in American History at Cambridge University.
Mr. Snider has had an extensive career in the intelligence community,
having served as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
(Counterintelligence and Security), Minority Counsel for the Select
Committee on Intelligence for the U.S. Senate, and General Counsel for
the Select Committee on Intelligence for the U.S. Senate. In 1995, Mr.
Snider became Staff Director of the Commission on the Roles and
Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community, and was responsible
for oversight of the Commission's final report "Preparing for the 21st
Century: An Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence", which was issued on
March 1, 1996.
Mr. Snider received a B.A. from Davidson College and a J.D. from
the University of Virginia School of Law.
The Office of Inspector General at the Central Intelligence Agency
is responsible for managing audits, inspections, evaluations and
investigations. The Office is also responsible for overseeing the
Agency's programs and resources.
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Subject: 1998-05-04 Mark Named Director of Defense Research and Engineering
Keywords: Defense, Executive-Act, Foreign, Government, Nomination, Personnel,
Plains-States-Region, Security, Texas
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Los Angeles, California)
________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release May 4, 1998
PRESIDENT CLINTON
NAMES HANS MARK DIRECTOR
OF DEFENSE RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING
AT THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
The President today announced his intent to nominate Dr. Hans Mark
to serve as Director of Defense Research and Engineering.
Dr. Hans Mark, of Austin, Texas, is currently a Professor of
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of
Texas at Austin. Dr. Mark also served as Chancellor of The University
of Texas System from 1984 to 1992. Prior to joining UT in 1984, Dr.
Mark was the Deputy Administrator of NASA, having been appointed to
that position in March 1981, by President Reagan. He was Secretary of
the Air Force from April 1979, to February 1981, and Under Secretary of
the Air Force from April 1977, to April 1979. Before coming to
Washington he was the director of the NASA-Ames Research Center in
Mountain View, California from 1969 to 1977.
Dr. Mark earned an A.B. degree in physics from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1951, and a Ph.D. in physics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954.
The Director of Defense Research and Engineering is the chief
technical advisor to the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Under Secretary
of Defense for Acquisition and Technology on defense science and
technology development, priorities, programs and strategies including
scientific and technical matters, basic and applied research, and
advanced technology development.
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