Specter, to make the operations function the responsibility of a separate intelligence agency.

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And the fact is, it was simply a matter of the agency could not act and function without having the requisite number of board members.

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Dismantling the entity that performed this function during the Cold War, the U.S. Information Agency, was just one of the precipitous and strategically portentous mistakes made in the heady days following the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.

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Barring a radical change in the technological playing field, there will never be an effective cyber equivalent of the International Atomic Energy Agency despite all the aspirations of organizations like the International Telecommunications Union to serve such a function.

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