Porter Goss
Porter Johnston Goss (* November 26, 1938 in Waterbury, Connecticut ) is an American politician ( Republican). He served from 2004 to 2006 as the 19th Director of Central Intelligence; previously he was since 1989 a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and represented the 14th District of Florida there.
Life
Goss studied at Yale University, where he made in 1960 with a degree in classical philology. He served from 1960 to 1962 in the United States Army in the area of education; after which he worked from 1962 to 1972 at the CIA. For about ten years he was said to be working as an undercover agent for the CIA, including in Europe and Latin America. By his own account he was stationed during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 in Miami. Apparently he was at the famous division of the CIA, the Directorate of Operations. In Haiti, he worked with the intelligence service of the dictator Papa Doc Duvalier and Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle with.
Goss also speaks English, French and Spanish.
After a life-threatening infection with staphylococci, he went in the early 1970s on the island with the same name village south of Fort Myers Sanibel / East Florida retired after being in a hotel room in Washington, DC had collapsed unconscious. Subsequently, he was a businessman and investor. He lived 30 years in Sanibel. Goss founded there with two former colleagues, the weekly newspaper reporter Iceland. In December 1974 he won the election for mayor and was until 1982 a member of the City Council of Sanibel. From 1983 to 1988 he was Commissioner of Lee County.
He was elected to the 13th and later the 14th Congressional District of Florida as a Member of the Republicans in the House and belonged to the Congress from January 3, 1989 until his resignation on 23 September 2004. Goss was from 1997 Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ) and Vice Chairman of the House Rules Committee.
On September 11, 2001, he was sitting at the time of the attacks on the World Trade Center in the Capitol with Senator Bob Graham and the Pakistani intelligence chief General Mahmoud Ahmad breakfast together. The general was later dismissed as a possible Al -Qaeda sympathizer. Together with Bob Graham Goss served in 2002 as chairman of the Committee of the Senate on the work of the secret before and after September 11. Both had previously rejected such an investigation. On August 10, 2004 Goss was nominated by President George W. Bush as the successor of George Tenet as director of the CIA.
In Michael Moore's film " Fahrenheit 9/11 " Goss is identified as a supporter of the USA PATRIOT Act. A scene not shown in the film is an interview from March 2004, the Goss says: " At the CIA, I would get out of a job today, I am not qualified. . " On 5 May 2006, he resigned from this post without giving any reasons. A successor was not known at the time of his resignation. On May 30, Michael V. Hayden eventually was used as his successor.
He spends his summers on Fishers of Iceland (New York) and leads to an Organic Farm Retreat in Virginia.