New Office to Oversee Intelligence Abroad -WP

[Rose Siding]

The White House has decided to establish an office to manage and coordinate all U.S. human intelligence collection overseas, whether carried out by the CIA, the Pentagon or the FBI, one of dozens of recommendations made in March by a presidential commission on intelligence, according to current and former senior intelligence officials.

The administration is scheduled today to announce the new office and other intelligence changes arising from recommendations by the commission, which was headed by Judge Laurence H. Silberman and former senator Charles S. Robb (D-Va.). The office will be modeled after a commission recommendation to establish a Human Intelligence Directorate within the CIA that would be in a position superior to the Directorate of Operations, which now runs the agency's clandestine operations abroad, officials said.
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CIA Director Porter J. Goss and his agency, whose role diminished within the intelligence community with the arrival of John D. Negroponte as DNI, would solidify control of overseas spying under the new system. In addition, the change would "elevate human intelligence above analysis and science and technology within the agency," a former senior CIA official said yesterday.

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