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Article: The British Are Coming!(George Tenet as Qinetiq's nonexecutive director)(Reprint)
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Byline: Shane Harris
This column was originally published on GovernmentExecutive.com on Jan. 1, 2007.
Intelligence firm picks up former CIA chief George Tenet on its march into the U.S. market.
In October, George Tenet, the last director of central intelligence, emerged from his mostly quiet retirement to announce he had accepted a new job. The British defense and intelligence firm QinetiQ (pronounced kin-ET-ic) snatched him up as a "nonexecutive director." To put matters plainly - as Tenet often does - the former spy chief will help pave the road for QinetiQ's U.S. invasion.
For about 60 years, the brain trust behind QinetiQ has been ...