Soviet Threat Is Still Strong, Webster Says
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — CIA Director William H. Webster said Wednesday night that Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost has not reduced the Soviet threat to the United States and may have even increased it.
The Soviet Union’s “military capability, its efforts to increase global influence and its aggressive intelligence activities are still serious threats to United States’ interests,” he said in a speech to the Yale Political Union.
Afterwards, Webster held a brief news conference. On his own future as CIA chief under the Bush Administration, Webster said he had not yet been contacted by the President-elect’s transition team.
Webster said he had done no lobbying for the job, adding: “I have asked no one to advance my interest.”
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