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Bob Graham: We still have a woefully deficient number of people in our national security agencies who can speak the languages of the…

On the recordApril 29, 2009
We still have a woefully deficient number of people in our national security agencies who can speak the languages of the regions of the world from which our greatest threats are coming.
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Bob Graham

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the need for language skills in national security agencies.

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