[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 17, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E106]
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                      COMMENDING R. JAMES WOOLSEY

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                           HON. LARRY COMBEST

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 17, 1995
  Mr. COMBEST. Mr. Speaker, I would like to call to the Members' 
attention the following resolution which was recently passed in the 
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
To Commend R. James Woolsey For Exceptionally Distinguished Service to 
                      the United States of America

       Whereas, R. James Woolsey has served the people of the 
     United States of America in government and as a private 
     citizen for over twenty-five years.
       Whereas, R. James Woolsey began his public service with the 
     United States Army in 1968 where he served as an advisor to 
     the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 
     in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and on the 
     National Security Council Staff.
       Whereas, R. James Woolsey went on the serve with 
     distinction as a General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee 
     on Armed Services, as Under Secretary of the Navy, as 
     Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction 
     Talks, and as Ambassador and U.S. Representative to the 
     Negotiation on Convention Armed Forces in Europe, and as a 
     member of several Presidential commissions.
       Whereas, R. James Woolsey has served with distinction since 
     February 5, 1993 as the Director of Central Intelligence.
       Whereas, R. James Woolsey has worked diligently to lead the 
     intelligence community to meet the demanding requirements of 
     U.S. national security in an uncertain and unpredictable 
     world.
       Whereas, under the direction of R. James Woolsey, the 
     intelligence community has provided excellent support to this 
     nation in providing critical insights into the world hot 
     spots--in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, the former Soviet Union, and 
     elsewhere; and followed and, when possible foiled, the 
     proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorist acts, 
     and other activities inimical to U.S. national interests.
       Whereas, R. James Woolsey has continued and further 
     promoted the consideration and redirection of intelligence 
     roles and missions while simultaneously coping with a 
     dramatic reduction in fiscal resources and of personnel at 
     over twice the rate directed by the President for the 
     government at large.
       Whereas, R. James Woolsey led the Central Intelligence 
     Agency in the critically sensitive final stages of 
     identifying and apprehending a traitor who had, in previous 
     years, compromised some of its most valuable capabilities.
       Whereas, R. James Woolsey judiciously and carefully began a 
     complete revamping of personnel security practices and 
     counterintelligence roles in the intelligence community to 
     limit the possibility of a recurrence of such traitorous 
     activity.
       Whereas, R. James Woolsey used his tenure as Director of 
     Central Intelligence to lay the groundwork for intelligence 
     policies designed to support national security needs for the 
     coming century.
       Whereas, R. James Woolsey brought to his duties a 
     commitment to improve effective Congressional oversight and 
     to demystify and explain the mission of intelligence to the 
     people of the United States.
       Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House Permanent 
     Select Committee on Intelligence that, on the occasion of his 
     departure as Director of Central Intelligence, the Committee 
     expresses its deep appreciation to R. James Woolsey for his 
     distinguished service to the people to R. James Woolsey for 
     this distinguished service to the people of the United States 
     and, particularly, for his leadership of the intelligence 
     community and the Central Intelligence Agency.
     

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