Bobby Ray Inman

Bobby Ray Inman (born April 4, 1931 in Rhonesboro, Texas) is a retired U.S. admiral who held several influential positions in the US Intelligence community.

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April 4 - 1931 - Rhonesboro, Texas - U.S. - Admiral - Intelligence community

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He served as Director of Naval Intelligence from September 1974 to July 1976, then moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency where he served as Vice Director until 1977. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency, during which time he claimed that the United States had developed public key cryptography a decade before Diffie and Hellman http://www.research.att.com/~smb/nsam-160/. Inman held this post until 1981. His last major position was as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a post he held from 12 February 1981 to 10 June 1982.

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Naval Intelligence - 1974 - 1976 - Defense Intelligence Agency - 1977 - National Security Agency - United States - Public key cryptography - Diffie - Hellman - 1981 - Central Intelligence Agency

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He is known publicly as President Bill Clinton's first choice to succeed Les Aspin as Secretary of Defense in 1993. He withdrew from consideration in a televised conference in which he complained about a "conspiracy" to attack his character. Among those he named were Senator (and future presidential candidate) Bob Dole, and neoconservative pundit William Safire.

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Bill Clinton - Les Aspin - Secretary of Defense - 1993 - Bob Dole - William Safire

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He has also been influential in various advisory roles. Notably, he chaired a commission on improving security at U.S. foreign installations after the Marine barracks bombing and the April 1983 US Embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. The commission's report has been influential in setting security design standards for U.S. Embassies.

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Marine barracks bombing - April 1983 US Embassy bombing - Beirut - Lebanon - Commission's report - Embassies

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Since 1987, Inman has also served as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/faculty/inman.html, also his 1950 alma mater.

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1987 - University of Texas at Austin - 1950

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