too much that's being kept secret in the government, that, the department of defense leakes like asivesive. as i write in the book i spent my live, in c.i.a. and defense department, in an ocean of secrecy. i had clearances i had forgotten about for programs i had forgot existedded and so on. at the end of the cold war when i was director of central intelligence. i came to believe very strongly that, the american people had given c.i.a. a pass on a lot of things because of this conflict with the so viet union. and i believe that after the ends of the cold war we were going to have to be more open about what we did and why. to help them understand why intelligence was important to the government and presidents. and, so, i committed to release de classify all the estimates, c.i.a. had ever done on the soviet union, and de classify details, on covert actionses, to make some more senior officials available to the press and for open hearings on the hill. i felt the same way in the department of definite. now, sometimes the transparenty isn't to the public but internal. they say if you only knew