This will be the second big commission on intelligence under his presidency.
"Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency," intelligence officials concluded in the report.
Gates also noted a lesson from his years as deputy national security adviser, deputy director of the C.I.A. and director of central intelligence during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
The strong public response to Mr. Putin's hard line helped to propel the former intelligence chief to the presidency.
As a Minister of Intelligence during the Rafsanjani presidency, Fallahian was accused of involvement by journalists, including Akbar Ganji, Emadeddin Baghi, and politicians such as Mostafa Tajzadeh, in killing dissidents.
One document revealed that John McCone, director of central intelligence during Kennedy's presidency, authorized an Air Force plane to fly the Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis and the soprano Maria Callas from Rome to Athens, a favor that led to media inquiries.
Whatever you think of the individual ideas, you can hardly accuse him of not engaging in the issues of public policy in order to cover up any intellectual failings.But that is only of secondary importance because there is a more testing requirement for the presidency than intelligence.
The infrastructure that Venezuela provides for the cocaine business has expanded dramatically over the past five years of Chávez's presidency, according to intelligence sources.
See articleLe Monde accused the French presidency of ordering intelligence agents to investigate its reporting of alleged illegal donations to President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign, and said it would sue.
Permission for the sale came from the presidency and the intelligence agency, which had a small stake in the deal along with the government-owned Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company, said the senior Egyptian official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Kirchner has denied all involvement in Nisman's death, claiming the prosecutor was the victim of a conspiracy by the nation's intelligence agencies to destroy her presidency.
