10 July 2001
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US Department of State
International Information Programs

Washington File
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09 July 2001

Rice Announces Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, NSC

(Senior CIA official Mary K. Sturtevant appointed) (300)

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice July 9 announced the
appointment of Mary K. Sturtevant as Special Assistant to the
President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, National
Security Council staff, effective that day.

Following is the White House statement:

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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
July 9, 2001

STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice announced the appointment
of Mary K. Sturtevant as Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for Intelligence Programs, National Security Council staff,
effective July 9, 2001.

Ms. Sturtevant comes to the NSC from the Central Intelligence Agency,
where she served in senior positions in the Directorate of Operations,
the Directorate of Science and Technology, and as Agency Comptroller.
In recent years, Ms. Sturtevant played a key role in the development
of CIA's information operations program. Ms. Sturtevant also served as
a senior staff member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
where she provided oversight of tactical military and national foreign
intelligence and counterintelligence programs. Earlier in her career,
Ms. Sturtevant worked as an analyst with CIA's Directorate of
Intelligence and at the BDM Corporation on technology transfer and
arms control issues.

A native of California, Ms. Sturtevant has a B.A. from the University
of California at Santa Barbara in History and Russian Area Studies and
an M.A. in Soviet Studies and International Economics from the Johns
Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies. Ms.
Sturtevant and her husband, Alan V. Asay, live in Virginia with their
son and daughter.

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