Yesterday, I nominated William Webster, a man of sterling reputation, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Webster, remarked in a similar vein on the growing challenge to U.S. counter-espionage capabilities by Soviet military and KGB operations under Gorbachev.

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It is likely that William Webster, the accounting board appointee, and Robert Herdman, the SEC's chief accountant, who had signed off on the appointment despite Mr Webster's admission of involvement in a company being sued by shareholders, will now admit that their positions are also untenable.

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He decided to oppose the appointment of a prominent advocate for accounting reform to head a newly created oversight panel, then failed to disclose to either the White House or his fellow commissioners that his preferred choice, former CIA Director William Webster, had been in charge of the audit committee of a corporation accused of fraud.

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