HewasinformedinJanuaryofthe followingyear that he wasselected, and afterafullbackgroundcheck-whichincluded a lie detector andblood test-baker was a confirmedinternforthe FBI.
Finally, the Alcatel case should be viewed as a key litmus test of the commitment that the Bush Administration particularly Secretaries Baker, Mosbacher, and Cheney will accord Western technology security and other aspects of the economic and financial security portfolio.
That trick was successfully performed by Kenneth Baker, the Conservative Party chairman in 1990, when he manged to persuade the media that the real test of his party's popularity was what happened in the Tory showcase councils of Wandsworth and Westminster.