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[Memoirs of a Secretary at War]
Sep 11, 2014
Calling Gates, a man so reviled at the Central Intelligence Agency by the career types there that they, for the first known time, publicly lobbied against his appointment to be director of the CIA during George H.W. Bush's presidency, a statesman is quite a stretch? Gates appears to have been groomed from a young age for the CIA, and it was after his stint there or at the DoD, that it was recommended he enter the USAF for the minimum required time, then join the CIA [around that period, many military WWII veterans were in the CIA and they would shift back and forth from the CIA to military and back to the CIA, ostensibly for covert ops purposes]. Perhaps this grooming was because Gates' uncle was one of Eisenhower's defense secretaries? Keeping it in the family? I would be highly skeptical of anything Gates says in this book. [And please ignore his teen years when he boiled cats, it was for his Boy Scout badges?]