Robert Gates

Robert Gates   (spook)
Member of	Atlantic Council/Board, Atlantic Council/Distinguished Leadership Awards, Council on Foreign Relations/Members, JP Morgan Chase/International Council, Paley Media Council
US Secretary of Defense In office December 18, 2006 - July 1, 2011  Director of Central Intelligence In office November 6, 1991 - January 20, 1993 Preceded by William Webster Succeeded by James Woolsey

Pollard case

Robert Gates, who became Deputy director of the CIA in April, 1986, told me that Casey had never indicated to him that he had specific information about the Pollard material arriving in Moscow. "The notion that the Russians may have gotten some of the stuff has always been a viewpoint," Gates said, but not through the bartering of emigres. "The only view I heard expressed was that it was through intelligence operations" -- the K.G.B.

Realist faction leader

Jim Lobe argued that Gates was the leader of a realist faction in the Bush administration, rivalling the neoconservatives.

The realist resurgence can also be traced to the rise of specific individuals, who took the place of their discredited predecessors in posts between the beginning of Bush's second term and the end of 2006 when the most important realist of all – Defense Secretary Robert Gates – replaced Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon.

With Gates heading Washington's most-powerful foreign-policy bureaucracy, the return to realism, which was already underway – albeit tentatively – as early as 2004, accelerated sharply. By the end of 2007, the administration's top hawk, Vice President Dick Cheney, looks more isolated than ever.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Description
Colloquium on Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s	4 December 1987	5 December 1987	Spooky 1987 conference
Colloquium on Intelligence and Policy	9 November 1984	10 November 1984	A spooky conference in November 1984

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