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America overdue a for spy agencies are long major overhaul Why aren't they getting one? ’s By Carroll J Doherty Congressional Quarterly and by subsequent disclosures that the National Reconnaissance Office which manages spy satellites for the Pentagon amassed more than $1 billion in unspent funds WASHINGTON — Rocked by devastating spy scandal and embarrassing revelations of a a generated by those episodes has said Richard llaass director of a task force on intelli- gence sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations “It's essentially running out of steam" he said Haass said (here's little to show blue-ribbo- that the key to reforming the For love of literacy AP Photo se Miss America 1997 Tara Holland right receives a hug form Felecia Brown during a press conference Friday in Washington where Holland announced her plan for a national speaking tour focusing on literacy Wright brothers weren’t the only name in early aviation EDITOR’S NOTE —Everybody has heard of the Wright brothers But most people have not heard of Glenn H Curtiss also a pioneer of aviation Curtiss did more than anyone in his era to make flying machines a common form of transportation He held 500 patents including one for landing gear and another innovations still in for wing-fla- p use today By Ben Dobbin The Associated Press IJAMMONDSPORT NY — Incongruous though it seems this village in western hill-bou- New York was once the airplane manufacturing capital of America if not the world Its celebrity early this century rested on one man Glenn II Curtiss a gambler of the sky whose innovations quickly soft-spok- eclipsed those of the Wright brothers — bitter rivals who branded him a patent thief No longer is Curtiss the house- hold name that calls to mind motorcycles dead-en- d stalled after that in a couple of technologies whereas Curtiss Alexander Graham Bell enlisted Curtiss in forming a Aerial Experiment Association and their associates once they got started moved ahead very Since Orville and Wilbur Wright had concealed their rapidly “In his day odd though it sounds he really was more significant than the Wright brothers were in those first 10 or 13 years of aviation history” Like the Wrights Curtiss started out as a bicycle maker Unlike them he progressed to motorcycles displaying a zest for world-recor- d speed that earned him the sobriquet “Hell Rider” His genius for designing powerful hut light engines lured “crackpots” struggling to get aloft Since they paid so well for he obliged them Then Thomas Scott Baldwin got him engines up in a dirigible and Curtiss was hrxikcd on flying The village was thrust into the aviation spotlight when Baldwin moved his airship business here in 1906 Bell the telephone inventor who was experimenting with giant tetrahedral kites soon achieve that goal appear doomed the victim of concerted opposition from lawmakers In fact rather than lose some of its turf the Defense Department is likely to gain control over a new agency assigned to manage all imagery and mapping operations including some programs currently run by the CIA five-ma- n experiments the group needed to design a plane of its own while drawing on promising ideas such as wing flaps which had been tried in France In contrast the Wrights maneuvered their planes by warping the entire wings This became the crux of litigation that haunted Curtiss all his life Not long after the group’s success with the June Bug biplane Curtiss went his own way continually discovering better methods that in time transformed flying from a perilous pastime into a practical mode of travel lie rolled out success after suc- cess: The world's first hydroplane The nation's first open flying school The first d engines to extend air travel And aboard the first flight from Albany to Advocates for centralizing more authority in the CIA aren’t ready to concede defeat Even if little is accomplished this year they argue a solid foundation has been established for future reform efforts “We’ll probably get 10 percent of what we started out with” said Sen Bob Kerrey vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee “That’s better than nothing” D-N- cb But foreign policy analysts who participated in the intelligence studies believe that Con- Central Intelligence Agency: Traditional espiunngo data collection and analysis slowed began (he year as a prime candidate for a major makeover by Congress n commisSeveral sions and the leaders of the intelligence committees concluded winding down proposals to Horn are the nation's principal intoHigenca agnnuos Tim CIA is independent Hie ollmts lire part of the Defense Department But momentum for change slush fund the nation's intelligence community fragmented intelligence bureaucracy was for the Pentagon to cede some of its authority over spy programs to a strengthened CIA But with the 104th Congress Eyes on spies National Security Agency Electronic oavesdroppmg computer and communications security Defense Intelligence Agency: Collection and evalua- for the multiple reviews of intelligence which m intelltion of military-relateigence for Joint Chiefs of Staff involved the administration Congress and outside experts “Have we rctailorcd our intelligence sufficiently for the post-Col- d War world? I would say no” he said in an interview The debate over whether the Pentagon or the CIA should man- National Reconnaissance Office: Development and operation of nation's spy satellite network Central Imagery Office: Coordination of satellite and ground imagery collection and processing age intelligence programs isn't new It dates to the beginning of Military Branch Intelligence: Individual Army Navy Air Force and Marine Corps inlet ligonce operations the Cold War when Congress in the 1947 National Security Act created the position of director of Central Intelligence to oversee the entire intelligence community as well as the CIA The job description proved to be wildly misleading While the director has traditionally been regarded as the nation's top spy the secretary of defense actually exerts far more authority over the management of intelligence programs Of the estimated $28 billion the United States spends each year on intelligence — the official total is classified — only about $3 billion goes to the CIA More than 83 percent of the intelligence budget is absorbed by an related intelligence agencies such as the moneys hoarding National Reconnaissance Office “If we are going to say that Ihe director of Central Intelligence does not view himself or herself as being responsible for the NRO fundamentally nobody will he” he told Congress in April But over Ihe years defense officials have dug in their heels whenever the Pentagon’s power has been threatened During the tary Donald Rumsfeld brusquely rejected a suggestion lhal the Pentagon hand over control of intelligence satellites lo the CIA “If they're in my budgets I'll run array of Pentagon programs including what arc known as “technical collection systems” gress has missed a golden opportunity to refocus the bureaucracy still largely oriented to deal with Cold War military threats to address such new-ag- e challenges as terrorism crime and Demand for a sweeping overhaul was spurred by the arrest and conviction of CIA counterintelligence officer Aldrich H Ames who spied for the former Soviet Union for nearly a decade such as satellites It’s a confusing somewhat unwieldy system which has cre- them" The Washington Post quoted Rumsfeld as saying Not much has changed Al a hearing John P White deputy ated management headaches Director of Central Intelligence John M Dcutch who formerly served as deputy secretary of defense said that in his old job drug-trafficki- he was too busy to exercise Secre- Ihen-Dcl'en- mid-197- secretary of defense asserted “Our focus is on the warlighler and we're opposed to any changes that diminish the ability to support the warfighter'' prop- er oversight of small dcfcnsc- - water-coole- 150-mi- lc New York in 1910 he carried a message between mayors heralding the birth of airmail biplanes and flying boats Even the small museum that commemorates him along a rural highway next to his hometown is easy to miss Yet he did more than anyone in his era to make (lying machines a commonplace contrivance just as Henry Ford did for automobiles and Thomas Edison for electric light “The Wright brothers' accomplishment in being the first to fly in an aircraft in 1903 was magnificent” said museum curator Kirk House leaning on a replica of the "June Bug” that soared above the vineyards here in 908 in the nation's first officially recorded flight “But the fact is they got 1 igSii I Not valid with any other coupon offer or punch-car- d wuMjn vst rr prittu Cum Vvj Maij Expires November n 2 19 I I J to CDinmEimg tlhds week it’s up its good! 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