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Bush Names Spy-in-Chief

John Negroponte named as national intelligence chief

President George Bush has chosen John Negroponte, US ambassador to Iraq and former United Nations ambassador, to be the director of national intelligence.

The position is a newly created post set up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Mr Negroponte, a career diplomat, will oversee all 15 US intelligence agencies, including the CIA and FBI, and making sure they work in a unified way.

President Bush nominated him to serve as the US Ambassador to Iraq on April 19, 2004.

Born in London in 1939 to Greek parents, Mr Negroponte was a career diplomat.

He served at eight different Foreign Service posts in Asia, Europe and Latin America; and he also held important positions at the State Department and the White House.

He was appointed by President Reagan as Ambassador to Honduras during the administration's war with Nicaraguan Sandinistas.

The US Government was allegedly involved in the cover-up of human rights abuses by CIA-trained operatives, was accused by critics of arming the Nicaraguan Contra rebels and ignoring murder and torture by the Honduran military regime.

President Bush nominated him to serve as Ambassador to Iraq in April 2004.

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