Robert Gates

Robert Gates   (spook)
Born	Robert Michael Gates 1943-09-25 Wichita, Kansas
Alma mater	Indiana University, Georgetown University
Spouse	Becky Gates
Member of	Atlantic Council/Board, Atlantic Council/Distinguished Leadership Awards, Council on Foreign Relations/Members, JP Morgan Chase/International Council, Paley Media Council
Party	Republican
US Secretary of Defense In office December 18, 2006 - July 1, 2011  Director of Central Intelligence In office November 6, 1991 - January 20, 1993 Preceded by William Webster Succeeded by James Woolsey  President of the Boy Scouts of America  In office 2014 - Present  Chancellor of the College of William & Mary In office February 3, 2012 - Present  President of Texas A&M University In office August 1, 2002 - December 16, 2006  Deputy National Security Advisor  In office March 20, 1989 - November 6, 1991  Deputy Director of Central Intelligence In office April 18, 1986 - March 20, 1989 Succeeded by Richard Kerr  Chairman of the National Intelligence Council In office 1983 - 1986 Preceded by Henry Rowen Succeeded by Frank Horton  Chancellor of the College of William and Mary In office February 3, 2012 - Present

Career

Robert Gates became Deputy director of the CIA.

Pollard case

"Robert Gates told me that Casey had never indicated to him that he had specific information about the Pollard material arriving in Moscow. "The notion that the Russians may have gotten some of the stuff has always been a viewpoint," Gates said, but not through the bartering of emigres. "The only view I heard expressed was that it was through intelligence operations" — the K.G.B."

Realist faction leader

Jim Lobe argued that Gates was the leader of a realist faction in the Bush administration, rivalling the neoconservatives.

The realist resurgence can also be traced to the rise of specific individuals, who took the place of their discredited predecessors in posts between the beginning of Bush's second term and the end of 2006 when the most important realist of all – Defense Secretary Robert Gates – replaced Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon.

With Gates heading Washington's most-powerful foreign-policy bureaucracy, the return to realism, which was already underway – albeit tentatively – as early as 2004, accelerated sharply. By the end of 2007, the administration's top hawk, Vice President Dick Cheney, looks more isolated than ever.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Colloquium on Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s	4 December 1987	5 December 1987		Spooky 1987 conference
Colloquium on Intelligence and Policy	9 November 1984	10 November 1984		A spooky conference in November 1984
Halifax International Security Forum/2009	20 November 2009	22 November 2009	Canada Halifax Nova Scotia	Spooky conference in Canada in November 2009

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