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DIRECTOR HAYDEN SPEAKS AT DNI OPEN SOURCE CONFERENCE 2008
September 12, 2008
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The Central Intelligence Agency issued the text of the following speech:

Thank you, Doug. It's a pleasure to be here. I'm a huge fan of open source intelligence and the Open Source Center. As a career intelligence officer, I'd like to start today with an observation that might surprise some of you who are not: Secret information isn't always the brass ring. In fact, there's something special about solving a problem or answering a to . . .

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