WASHINGTON IN BRIEF
Saturday, January 7, 2006; Page A04
Intelligence Agency's Head to Quit
The head of the U.S. intelligence agency that analyzes data from military spy satellites and U2 aircraft will leave his post in June, officials said. James R. Clapper Jr., a retired Air Force general, will step down as director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on June 13, three months short of his fifth anniversary as head of the Defense Department operation, officials said.
The Baltimore Sun, which first reported Clapper's departure, said Clapper was being forced out after angering Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld by telling Congress his agency would not be ill served by the creation of a director of national intelligence, which Pentagon officials initially opposed.
For the Record
Postal rates increase tomorrow, boosting the cost of sending a first-class letter by 2 cents, to 39 cents.
One month after two air marshals killed a threatening airline passenger in Miami, the director of the Federal Air Marshal Service said he plans to retire. Thomas D. Quinn, a retired Secret Service agent who took charge of efforts to beef up the enforcement agency after the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings, wrote his staff that he would retire Feb. 3.
-- From News Services
