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Monday, May 8, 2006

Michael V Hayden new CIA director

 

 

Any connection with the Greek eavesdropping?

...As head of the NSA - the American electronic eavesdropping organisation - the 61-year-old oversaw the programme, which allows for the monitoring of international calls and e-mails of terrorist suspects inside the US without a warrant. It appears that Gen Hayden's role in overseeing the eavesdropping could become the focus of what could be bruising Senate confirmation hearings.

General Hayden is widely seen as an expert in technological intelligence gathering. The NSA, which he directed from 1999 to 2005, is reliant on satellites to intercept communications and computers to help break enemy codes.

Last year, General Hayden became the top deputy to the new national intelligence director, John Negroponte, who oversees the CIA and 15 other intelligence agencies.

He is known for directness - some say this comes from his working-class roots. The son of a welder, he was brought up in Pittsburgh. He worked part-time as a taxi driver to help fund his bachelor's and master's degrees in history at Duquesne University between 1967 and 1969. His career in the Air Force led him to serve in senior intelligence jobs in Germany during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. Between 1980 and 1982, he was chief of intelligence at the Osan Air Base in South Korea. As a defence attaché in Bulgaria during the Cold War, according to reports, he would dress up as a workman to eavesdrop on the conversations of Bulgarian conscripts. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4750377.stm

 

 

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