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Navy nominates replacement for hamstrung 3-star intel boss

Dec. 1, 2014   

Written by David Larter

 Rear. Adm. Elizabeth Train has been nominated to replace Vice. Adm. Ted Branch as the director of naval intelligence. (Navy)

After a year in limbo, the Navy has decided to move ahead and replace the service’s top intelligence officer, whose tenure has been hamstrung by suspected ties to a disgraced defense contracting firm.

The Office of the Secretary of the Navy has nominated Rear Adm. Elizabeth Train for a third star and to relieve Vice Adm. Ted Branch as director of naval intelligence, according to two Navy officials.

Branch’s access to classified information was suspended in November 2013, along with that of a deputy, Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless, the director of intelligence operations, for possible connections to Glenn Defense Marine Asia — the husbanding firm at the center of one of the Navy’s biggest bribery scandals in decades…

Источник: http://www.c4isrnet.com/article/20141201/C4ISRNET14/312010005/Navy-nominates-replacement-hamstrung-3-star-intel-boss