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Porter Goss

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Also known as: Porter Johnston Goss
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United States Correspondent, The Times Educational Supplement, London.
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Porter Johnston Goss
Born:
November 26, 1938, Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. (age 86)
Title / Office:
House of Representatives (1989-2004), United States
Political Affiliation:
Republican Party
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Porter Goss (born November 26, 1938, Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.) is an American Republican politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1989–2004) and as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; 2004–06). Goss was educated at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, and at Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in classics and Greek in 1960. He trained as a military intelligence officer before joining the CIA in 1962. Because of his fluency in Spanish, his first posting was to Miami at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. He undertook clandestine assignments in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, ...(100 of 412 words)

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