Spy chief: Agencies must work differently, better

Saturday, April 23, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The new national intelligence director, John Negroponte, told the thousands of employees at the nation's spy agencies Friday that the government will pioneer new ways of organizing itself to face "a new order of threats to national security." In a message to the intelligence community in his first day on the job, Negroponte wrote, "We know we need to do our work differently and do it better, but the most critical element in intelligence reform resides in you, the people who will carry it out." Negroponte takes over a collection of 15 highly independent spy agencies.

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