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<text id=91TT2806>
<title>
Dec. 16, 1991: A Network That Guarantees Scoops
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 16, 1991 The Smile of Freedom
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 15
A Network That Guarantees Scoops
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<p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
</p>
<p> What's the value of secrets if nobody asks you for them?
Fresh, reliable information is the measure of an intelligence
czar. But new CIA director ROBERT GATES has noted that whenever
something big happens, everybody from the President on down
turns to CNN for up-to-the-minute reports. Gates is considering
going CNN one better by creating his own private news program.
Available on an encrypted computer system, the central
intelligence network would distribute instant analysis and
scoops to about 200 top Administration officials. Film at 11.
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</body></article>
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