1.   It was not unusual for men in the clandestine service to retire at age fifty-one.

2.   And the clandestine service cannot be seen doing nothing when a certain dictator is driving the president crazy.

3.   Deutch said the managers of the clandestine service would be replaced by a younger generation unscarred by scandals of the past.

4.   Fourteen months later, after training at Camp Peary, he joined the clandestine service.

5.   He had been the chief of the clandestine service in the Arab world and a covert agent in Iran, Lebanon, Kuwait and Yemen.

6.   John Deutch made a gallant effort in his two-year tenure, but faced intense resistance, particularly from the clandestine service of the CIA.

7.   So old hands in the clandestine service were a little taken aback when the newly appointed director began hugging them.

8.   Some still say he lacks the gravity to command the senior military officials who head the Pentagon intelligence services or to control the clandestine service of the CIA.

9.   That a slacker like Ames could flourish in the clandestine service destroyed what reputation the old school had left.

10.   The clandestine service followed an expedient cold war ethic and set its own rules.