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

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

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