During the Reagan Administration, he was a National Intelligence Officer at the CIA and subsequently a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

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The danger of emerging ballistic missile threats was underscored by Dr. Larry Gershwin , National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs at the Central Intelligence Agency.

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The problem was compounded by others Negroponte also brought in from State, notably his assigning of the appallingly inadequate former U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Kenneth Brill, as the Director of the Counter-Proliferation Center and of Foggy Bottom "expert" Vann Van Diepen as the National Intelligence Officer for non-proliferation matters.

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