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Frances Fragos Townsend, chairwoman of the board for the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, presents Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates with the William Oliver Baker Award during a dinner in his honor in McLean, Va., May 21, 2010.

Frances Fragos Townsend, chairwoman of the board for the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, presents Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates with the William Oliver Baker Award during a dinner in his honor in McLean, Va., May 21, 2010.

Frances Fragos Townsend, chairwoman of the board for the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, presents Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates with the William Oliver Baker Award during a dinner in his honor in McLean, Va., May 21, 2010.

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