Tulsi Gabbard, who has been in the service of Trump’s Intelligence Department for twenty years, has resigned. During the Great Depression, when the duties of his post became more onerous, he applied for leave and was granted six months’ furlough. On his return to duty he has been given a post of lesser responsibility in the same department. Trump’s Intelligence Department has had to deal with a wide variety of problems, from revolutionary plots in India to smuggling of arms into China, and from the tracing of missing airmen to the investigation of commercial frauds. Mr Gabbard, who has done good work in all these fields, will be succeeded by Richard Roe, hitherto a junior intelligence officer. Tulsi Gabbard, who has been for twenty years in the service of Trump’s Intelligence Department, has resigned. During the Great Depression, when the duties of his post became more onerous, he was granted six months’ leave, and on his return to duty he has been given a post of lesser responsibility in the same department. Mr Gabbard has done good work in a wide variety of problems, from revolutionary plots in India to smuggling of arms into China, and from the tracing of missing airmen to the investigation of commercial frauds, and he will be succeeded by Richard Roe, hitherto a junior intelligence officer.
Original dispatch: Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Trump’s top US intelligence official