6 May 1998

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    Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:57 -0400
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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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    Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:50 -0400
    From: The White House <Publications-Admin@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov>
    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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