S6336 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 9, 1995

have the best information available before making decisions; providing adequate support to military operations;

the need for intelligence to address the

growing problems of international terrorism, crime, and drugs; and that our

counterintelligence capabilities are

able to assure that America’s enemies

do not penetrate our national security

apparatus.

The new CIA Director comes along at

an important time for the U.S. intelligence community. For almost half a

century, the intelligence community—

indeed our Nation’s entire national security infrastructure—has been focused

primarily on the Soviet threat. And

during the cold war period, our Government viewed most national security issues—justifiable or not—through the

prism of the United States-Soviet competition.

Obviously, this is no longer the case

as America is coming to terms with a

rapidly changing world. And having a

robust and effective intelligence community is an indispensable means to

that end. Timely and accurate intelligence forms the foundation of our foreign policy and defines the threat to

U.S. national security that is—or

should be—the basis of our defense

spending.

Yet with the end of the cold war,

some have argued that the CIA is a

relic which has outlived its usefulness,

and we should do away with it. I

strongly disagree with such views. In

this unprecedented time of enormous

change and uncertainty in the world—

as the on-going problem of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and recent acts of terrorism at

home and around the world clearly

demonstrate, our need for the intelligence community and a robust intelligence budget is greater than ever before.

The requirement for an intelligence

capability is by no means a cold war

aberration. This year, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of

World War II. And history has ultimately revealed to the public the important role of intelligence in that war.

Mr. President, like all veterans of

that conflict, the 50th anniversary

commemorations of specific events of

World War II have special meaning to

me. One of the most moving ceremonies I have ever attended was last

June’s ceremony in France commemorating the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

And unsurprisingly, intelligence

made an extraordinary contribution to

the success of D-Day’s planning and

implementation. Intelligence agents

acquired an accurate map of the German Atlantic Wall fortifications, and

an intelligence deception operation

code-named Body Guard used German

spies captured in England as double

agents who sent false messages to the

Nazis regarding the precise location of

the planned invasion of Europe. This

latter operation also successfully

passed along false information regarding the location of Allied invasion

forces in England.

Intelligence played a decisive role in

Allied victory in World War II in many

ways. Signals intelligence [SIGINT],

for example, played an instrumental

role in winning World War II as Allied

intelligence successfully broke German

and Japanese codes.

And as we enter one of the most unpredictable and dangerous periods in

world history, we must ensure that our

SIGINT as well as human intelligence

[HUMINT] and other intelligence capabilities will be able to meet the intelligence challenges of tomorrow.

Mr. President, in addition to the

other recommendations being made to

Dr. Deutch, as DCI, I would like to add

one more.

Next March, the Commission on the

Roles and Capabilities of the United

States Intelligence Community—which

was initiated by this committee last

year—will issue its report, including

recommendations to reorganize the intelligence community in the postcold

war era. While I look forward to reviewing the Commission’s report, I

must admit that I have been somewhat

skeptical over the years about the utility of Government by ‘‘Blue Ribbon

Panel’’—and have sought to educe the

number of such commissions through

oversight action of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, where I am

now the ranking member.

As Dr. Deutch assumes his duties as

DCI and he perceives significant problems—organizational and otherwise—

that are impending the intelligence

community’s ability to meet its requirements, I sincerely hope that he

will act expeditiously to remedy these

problems and not wait for the Commission’s report next March.

Mr. President, I urge my colleagues

to vote in support of Dr. Deutch as

DCI.

EXHIBIT 1

JOHN M. DEUTCH

The Honorable John M. Deutch was sworn

in as Deputy Secretary of Defense on 11

March 1994, following a unanimous vote in

the Senate. He previously served as the

Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and

Technology) from 15 April 1993 until his confirmation as Deputy Secretary.

Prior to his nomination to these positions,

Mr. Deutch served in a number of educational government posts. Mr. Deutch became a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 and

since then has been an associate professor

and professor of chemistry, chairman of the

Department of Chemistry, dean of science,

provost, and Institute Professor.

His government assignments include service in the Department of Energy as Director

of Energy Research, Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology, and Under

Secretary of the Department. In recognition

of his contributions, he was honored with the

Secretary’s Distinguished Service Medal and

the Department’s Distinguished Service

Medal. He has been a member of the White

House Science Council, the Defense Science

Board, the Army Scientific Advisory Panel,

the Chief of Naval Operations Executive

Panel, the President’s Commission on Strategic Forces, the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and the President’s

Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee. He

also served as a consultant to the Bureau of

the Budget.

He has been a trustee of the Urban Institute, a member and Chair of the National

Science Foundation Advisory Panel for

Chemistry, an overseer of the Museum of

Fine Arts in Boston, a trustee of Wellesley

College, a director of Resources for the Future, a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a member of the Governor of Massachusetts Technology and Economic Development Council.

A graduate of Amherst College with a B.A.

in history and economics, he earned both a

B.S. in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in

physical chemistry from M.I.T. He holds

honorary doctoral degrees from Amherst

College and the University of Lowell. Mr.

Deutch has been a Sloan Research Fellow

and a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of

Sigma Xi and the American Academy of Arts

and Sciences.

Mr. Deutch was born in Brussels, Belgium,

and became a U.S. citizen in 1946. He has

three sons, and his permanent residence is in

Belmont, Massachusetts.

MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT

fMessages from the President of the

United States were communicated to

the Senate by Mr. Thomas, one of his

secretaries.

EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED

fAs in executive session the Presiding

Officer laid before the Senate messages

from the President of the United

States submitting sundry nominations

which were referred to the Committee

on Armed Services.

(The nominations received today are

printed at the end of the Senate proceedings.)

EXECUTIVE AND OTHER

COMMUNICATIONS

fThe following communications were

laid before the Senate, together with

accompanying papers, reports, and documents, which were referred as indicated:

EC–880. A communication from the Under

Secretary of Defense (Acquisiton and Technology), transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the M1A2 Abrams Upgrade;

to the Committee on Armed Services.

EC–881. A communication from the Under

Secretary of Defense (Acquisiton and Technology), transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the Maneuver Control System; to the Committee on Armed Services.

EC–882. A communication from the Under

Secretary of Defense (Acquisiton and Technology), transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the ADDS, C-17, and Javelin

programs; to the Committee on Armed Services.

EC–883. A communication from the Deputy

and Acting Chief Executive Officer of the

Resolution Trust Corporation, transmitting,

pursuant to law, a report relative to the Affordable Housing Disposition Program for

calendar year 1994; to the Committee on

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

EC–884. A communication from the President and Chairman of the Export-Import