THE WHITE HOUSE



                       Office of the Press Secretary

                           (St. Paul, Minnesota)



For Immediate Release                                               May 4, 2000




PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES GENERAL JOHN A. GORDON, USAF AS UNDER SECRETARY FOR


NUCLEAR SECURITY AND ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION


                        AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY




     The President today announced the nomination of General John A.

Gordon, U.S. Air Force, to serve as Under Secretary for Nuclear Security

and Administrator of the National Security Administration at the Department

of Energy.




     General Gordon, of Washington, D.C., is currently the Deputy Director

of Central Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency.  He entered the

Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1968.  He

was a long-range planner at Strategic Air Command and served with the U.S.

State Department in politico-military affairs.  General Gordon has also

worked at Sandia National Laboratories on Air Force weapon systems,

commanded a strategic ICBM Wing, and served with the National Security

Council in the areas of defense and arms control including the oversight

and completion of the START II negotiations.  Before assuming his current

position, General Gordon served as Associate Director of Central

Intelligence for Military Support at the Central Intelligence Agency.




     General Gordon received a B.S. degree from the University of Missouri

at Columbia and a M.S. degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in

Monterey, California.  He also earned a M.B.A. degree from New Mexico

Highlands University in Las Vegas, Nevada.







     The Under Secretary for Nuclear Security serves as the Administrator

of the National Nuclear Security Administration under Section 3202 the

Department of Energy Organization Act.  This individual is responsible for

carrying out the national nuclear security responsibilities of the

Department of Energy, which include maintaining safe, secure, and reliable

stockpile of nuclear weapons and associated materials, capabilities, and

technologies.  The Administrator is responsible for promoting international

nuclear safety and nonproliferation as well as the administration and

management of the naval nuclear propulsion program at the Department of

Energy.

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March 2, 2000 Statement By DCI Tenet

        

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