• Information Technology: Alan Wade, chief information officer; and Doug Naquin, deputy CIO.
• Security: Bob McCants, chief; and John Turnicky and Jeannette Moore, deputies.
• Global Support: David Larsen, chief; and Tony King, deputy.
• Human Resources: Marty Petersen, chief; and Mike Mears and Joan Biehler, deputies.
CIA REDUX: No sooner had senior Bush administration officials announced in March that they had pulled the plug on the CIA's high-profile role in the Middle East peace process than the agency was back arranging talks between the Palestinian and Israeli security services.
CIA Deputy Director John E. McLaughlin told the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia last week that the White House had recently asked the agency to convene a couple of meetings between Palestinian and Israeli intelligence officials.
"Our role is not to negotiate; it is not to mediate. It is to provide a venue and invite people to come to a meeting hosted by someone who does not have an ax to grind," McLaughlin told Reuters afterward.
CIA officials said the agency's renewed involvement did not constitute a reversal by the Bush administration, explaining that the mediator's role it played during the Clinton administration has been substantially downgraded.
The CIA's involvement began in 1996 when Tenet, then deputy director, met for the first time with Israeli and Palestinian officials after several bombings by the radical Islamic group Hamas.
It was formalized in a 1998 document signed at Wye Plantation in Maryland, with the CIA assigned a mediator's role in a security process designed to root out militant Palestinian cells and control weapons smuggling.
The CIA's renewed role apparently does not personally involve Tenet, who became a semi-public participant in the peace process under Clinton and traveled to the Middle East at least 10 times, agency officials said. He has no such travel plans in the near future, they said.
