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Robert M. Gates
Secretary of Defense
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Dr. Robert M. Gates was sworn in on December 18, 2006, as the 22nd Secretary of Defense.
Robert gates biography cia director
Before entering his present post, Secretary Gates was the President of Texas A&M University, the nation’s seventh largest university. Prior to assuming the presidency of Texas A&M on August 1, 2002, he served as Interim Dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M from 1999 to 2001.
Secretary Gates served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1991 until 1993.
He is the only career officer in CIA’s history to rise from entry-level employee to Director. Secretary Gates served as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from 1986 until 1989 and as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser at the White House from January 20, 1989, until November 6, 1991, for President George H.W.
Bush.
Secretary Gates joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1966 and spent nearly 27 year