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<text id=91TT1677>
<title>
July 29, 1991: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier -- Screw-Up?
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 13
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier--Screw-Up?
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<p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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<p> Even if ROBERT GATES shakes off the Iran-contra allegations
that have stymied his chances to be head of the CIA, will his spy
staff ever respect a guy who flunked Surveillance 101? When Gates
was a young CIA trainee in the early 1960s, one of his early
attempts to tail a suspect was notably unsuccessful, according to
a former classmate. Gates was assigned to shadow a man in
Richmond. But the local police became curious about the apprentice
spy loitering on a street corner and hauled Gates in for
questioning. Hours later, after a CIA instructor intervened, the
spook-to-be was returned to quarters at Camp Peary. Gates then
traded in his trenchcoat and eventually became the agency's top
analyst.
</p>
</body></article>
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