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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER -- SCREW-UP?
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Even if ROBERT GATES shakes off the Iran-contra allegations
- that have stymied his chances to be head of the CIA, will his spy
- staff ever respect a guy who flunked Surveillance 101? When Gates
- was a young CIA trainee in the early 1960s, one of his early
- attempts to tail a suspect was notably unsuccessful, according to
- a former classmate. Gates was assigned to shadow a man in
- Richmond. But the local police became curious about the apprentice
- spy loitering on a street corner and hauled Gates in for
- questioning. Hours later, after a CIA instructor intervened, the
- spook-to-be was returned to quarters at Camp Peary. Gates then
- traded in his trenchcoat and eventually became the agency's top
- analyst.
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