It's the only way to be sure…
Vaughn Frederick Bishop is an American intelligence officer currently serving as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency since his appointment in August 2018 by President Donald Trump. Bishop first joined the CIA in 1981, and retired in 2011.
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https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol-59-no-2/pdfs/Book-File-Extracts-Studies-59-2-web.pdf
The most sensitive question
remained, “Who would speak for
the IC’s analytic line on an issue and
who would represent the IC at downtown policy meetings”? Since most
policy questions relate to analytic
judgments rather than to collection
postures, the NIO seemed to be the
natural leading fi gure for inclusion.
In point of fact, managers would
defer much of the time to NIOs, but
the ability of NIMs to decide that
they themselves should be at the
table instead of an NIO did rankle
and still does. In either case, it is the
wide and immediate sharing with the
relevant communities of information
obtained from such policy meetings
that matters most. And that is exactly
what is taking place.