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Porter Goss (born November 26, 1938, Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.) is an American Republican politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1989–2004) and as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; 2004–06). Goss was educated at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, and at Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in classics and Greek in 1960. He trained as a military intelligence officer before joining the CIA in 1962. Because of his fluency...