Saturday, May 07, 2005

Negroponte sets up Spy shop

Negroponte is moving swifty to set up the new shop at the New Federal Office Building.

One of John Negroponte's first moves was to set up an organization that includes four deputies for intelligence collection, analysis, coordination with government consumers of intelligence, and overall management of the spy community.

With two weeks on the job, Negroponte has chosen people for all but one of those four slots, according to the senior officials familiar with the new structure, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

That includes the promotion of Thomas Fingar, who has run the State Department's intelligence office since July 2004, to be the deputy for intelligence analysis.

Fingar has been interviewed by Senate investigators regarding how analysts working under him have been treated by John Bolton, the embattled nominee to be U.N. ambassador.

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