Letter: One requirement for CIA directors

Monday, Nov. 1, 2004 | 9:02 a.m.

"I couldn't get a job with the CIA today," commented Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., in a videotaped interview with leftist film producer Michael Moore in March. "I am not qualified. I don't have the language skills. I don't have the technical skills."

Yet the Senate confirmed Goss -- who did serve 10 years in the CIA's clandestine service before being elected to Congress -- as the new CIA director on Sept. 23.

Is there an unwritten rule that this post, one of the most powerful offices on the planet, must be held by a member of the Council on Foreign Relations? This is apparently so. Porter Goss is the 16th director of the CIA since 1950. With the exception of Adm. William F. Raborn Jr. (April 1965 to June 1966), all have been members of the CFR, America's unelected one-world Establishment.

Those CFR-CIA directors -- in the order in which they served -- are: Walter Bedell Smith, Allen W. Dulles, John A. McCone, Richard M. Helms, James R. Schlesinger, William E. Colby, George H. W. Bush, Stansfield Turner, William J. Casey, William H. Webster, Robert M. Gates, R. James Woolsey, John M. Deutch, George J. Tenet and Porter J. Goss.

Strange, isn't it?

FRANK M. PELTESON

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