Kenneth Minihan

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Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan (born December 23, 1943) is a former director of the National Security Agency (retired 1 May 1999).

Minihan entered the United States Air Force in 1966 as a distinguished graduate of the Florida State University Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He served as senior intelligence officer for the Air Force and in other senior staff officer positions in the Pentagon; Headquarters Tactical Air Command, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.; Electronic Security Command, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas; the Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.; and the National Security Agency, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. He has commanded squadrons, groups and a major Air Command, both in the United States and overseas. He has been the assistant chief of staff, intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., and most recently, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

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• Public domain biography by the United States Air Force

Preceded by John M. McConnell	Director of the National Security Agency 1996–1999	Succeeded by Michael V. Hayden
Preceded by James R. Clapper	Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency 1995–1996	Succeeded by Patrick M. Hughes