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| March 30, 2005: John D. Negroponte, who has been nominated by President Bush as the United States' first Director of National Intelligence, is a four-decade career diplomat who is fiercely committed to upholding and promoting U.S. policy and who has worked extensively in intelligence in various capacities here and abroad, according to a profile of Negroponte in The New York Times. According to the Times report: Negroponte, 65, has had a career, dating back to 1960, when he first joined the Foreign Service, that has been distinguished by an unflinching allegiance to U.S. government policies, whether he was helping arm the Nicaraguan contras or lining up support for the war in Iraq as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Negroponte has developed a reputation as a poker-faced diplomat who never betrays his personal views. He has held five ambassadorships, including in Mexico and the Philippines. Negroponte has a preference for quiet negotiation above public grandstanding, has an unfailing courtesy, and has a knowledge of foreign affairs, the Times said. People who know him say that he is no ideologue, but a non-partisan pragmatist, a tough American conservative with deep European roots. Negroponte has been opposed by liberal activists who oppose his Reagan-era Central American intervention as brutal and unnecessary, and who view the current Bush policy of pre-emption as a re-run. Several critics say Negroponte did not do enough to quell human rights abuses in Honduras during the contras war in Nicaragua and that Negroponte was even complicit in abuses. Negroponte has denied and rejected the charges, and he has said that he complained privately of abuses. Negroponte was born in London, grew up on Park Avenue in Manhattan and on Long Island, and graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale in the same class as Porter J. Goss, the current Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA. Concerning his new post, two dozen current and former government officials who were interviewed by the Times agreed that the job is filled with hazards. "Good luck to him!" said Fred C. Ikle, a former Defense official who worked with Negroponte in the Reagan administration. |
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