March 26, 1999

STATEMENT BY WARREN B. RUDMAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE PRESIDENT?S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD (PFIAB)

                              THE WHITE HOUSE

                       Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release                                    March 26, 1999


    STATEMENT BY WARREN B. RUDMAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE PRESIDENT?S FOREIGN
                    INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD (PFIAB)

     In response to the President?s request for the PFIAB to undertake a
review of the security and counterintelligence threat to the Department of
Energy?s weapons labs, I am pleased to announce that I have asked PFIAB
Members Ms. Ann Caracristi and Dr. Sidney Drell to join me on a special
panel of the Board to conduct this inquiry.  In addition, the President
recently has announced his intent to appoint Mr. Stephen Friedman to the
PFIAB, and I intend to ask Mr. Friedman to become a panel member
immediately upon his appointment.

     Ms. Caracristi, an esteemed intelligence veteran, was Deputy Director
of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1980 to 1982.  Since retiring
from federal service, she has served on several commissions, boards and
committees on national security matters, including:  the Joint
DCI/Secretary of Defense Security Commission; the DCI Task Force on
Intelligence Community Training, which she chaired; and the Commission on
the Roles and Capabilities of the US Intelligence Community.  She currently
serves on the Board of Visitors of the Joint Military Intelligence College
and as a Consultant to the NSA Scientific Board.  Ms. Caracristi also sits
on the Intelligence Oversight Board, a standing committee of the PFIAB that
advises the President on the legality of US foreign intelligence
activities.

     Dr. Drell, a world-renowned physicist and arms control specialist, is
Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at the Stanford University Linear
Accelerator Center and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute, Stanford
University.  He had been Deputy Director of the Center until last year,
when he retired.  An authoritative lecturer and author, Dr. Drell has
received numerous high awards and honors, both nationally and
internationally, for his scholarship, research and public service.   A
former  Chairman of the University of California President?s Council on the
National Laboratories, he has been for years a highly valued advisor to the
White House and Congress on nuclear matters.

     Mr. Friedman, a highly-respected and successful businessman, was for
years a General Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., and retired as its
Chairman in 1994.  He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Columbia
University, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Brookings
Institution, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  Mr. Friedman served on the Commission on
the Roles and Capabilities of the US Intelligence Community and on the
Jeremiah Panel, which reviewed the National Reconnaissance Office.  He
currently is a Senior Principal of Marsh & McLennan Capital, Inc.

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     Dr. Drell and Ms. Caracristi have been members of the PFIAB since
1993.  Both have actively participated in Board inquiries on a broad
spectrum of sensitive national security issues.  Their efforts have
contributed substantially to the Board?s long tradition of dedicated,
nonpartisan service.  They and Mr. Friedman will bring an immense amount of
expertise, integrity and objectivity to the critical task assigned to us by
the President.

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