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- Dec. 16, 1991: A Network That Guarantees Scoops
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 16, 1991 The Smile of Freedom
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- A Network That Guarantees Scoops
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- <p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> What's the value of secrets if nobody asks you for them?
- Fresh, reliable information is the measure of an intelligence
- czar. But new CIA director ROBERT GATES has noted that whenever
- something big happens, everybody from the President on down
- turns to CNN for up-to-the-minute reports. Gates is considering
- going CNN one better by creating his own private news program.
- Available on an encrypted computer system, the central
- intelligence network would distribute instant analysis and
- scoops to about 200 top Administration officials. Film at 11.
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- </body></article>
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