6 May 1998
To: Public-Distribution@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:57 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov> Subject: 1998-05-05 Snider named Inspector General at the CIA Keywords: Executive-Act, Government, Nomination, Organization, Personnel, Security, South-Region, Virginia Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1998/5/6/4.text.1 Message-ID: <19980506155746.3.MAIL-SERVER@pub1.pub.whitehouse.gov> URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1998/5/6/4.text.1 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 5, 1998 PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES L. BRITT SNIDER AS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY The President today announced his intent to nominate L. Britt Snider as Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. L. Britt Snider, of McLean, Virginia, is currently Special Counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He has been a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the CIA, and a Visiting Mellon Scholar in American History at Cambridge University. Mr. Snider has had an extensive career in the intelligence community, having served as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (Counterintelligence and Security), Minority Counsel for the Select Committee on Intelligence for the U.S. Senate, and General Counsel for the Select Committee on Intelligence for the U.S. Senate. In 1995, Mr. Snider became Staff Director of the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community, and was responsible for oversight of the Commission's final report "Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence", which was issued on March 1, 1996. Mr. Snider received a B.A. from Davidson College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. The Office of Inspector General at the Central Intelligence Agency is responsible for managing audits, inspections, evaluations and investigations. The Office is also responsible for overseeing the Agency's programs and resources. 30-30-30 ___________________________________________________________________________ To: Public-Distribution@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:50 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov> Subject: 1998-05-04 Mark Named Director of Defense Research and Engineering Keywords: Defense, Executive-Act, Foreign, Government, Nomination, Personnel, Plains-States-Region, Security, Texas Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1998/5/6/3.text.1 Message-ID: <19980506155011.8.MAIL-SERVER@pub1.pub.whitehouse.gov> URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1998/5/6/3.text.1 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Los Angeles, California) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 4, 1998 PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES HANS MARK DIRECTOR OF DEFENSE RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING AT THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE The President today announced his intent to nominate Dr. Hans Mark to serve as Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Dr. Hans Mark, of Austin, Texas, is currently a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Mark also served as Chancellor of The University of Texas System from 1984 to 1992. Prior to joining UT in 1984, Dr. Mark was the Deputy Administrator of NASA, having been appointed to that position in March 1981, by President Reagan. He was Secretary of the Air Force from April 1979, to February 1981, and Under Secretary of the Air Force from April 1977, to April 1979. Before coming to Washington he was the director of the NASA-Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California from 1969 to 1977. Dr. Mark earned an A.B. degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1951, and a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954. The Director of Defense Research and Engineering is the chief technical advisor to the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology on defense science and technology development, priorities, programs and strategies including scientific and technical matters, basic and applied research, and advanced technology development. -30-30-30-