For decades America's top intelligence official, responsible for assessing and co-ordinating information from the country's multiple intelligence agencies, was the Director of Central Intelligence, who also headed the CIA. Many had qualms about this arrangement. Running an agency as large and complex as the cia was a formidable job in its own right; combining it with cross-government information assessment and being the president's chief intelligence analyst was somewhere between unwieldy and impossible.
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