NSA Director Picks Former Agency Employee for No. 2 Slot

By Dan Dupont / July 11, 2000 at 5:00 AM
National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden has gone outside his organization to find his next deputy, choosing former NSA employee William Black for the No. 2 position at the Ft. Meade, MD-based agency. "This nomination marks one of the few times that a deputy director was not nominated from within the agency," NSA said in a statement released late yesterday. Black, who has worked for Science Applications International Corporation since retiring from NSA in 1997, will replace Barbara...

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