EX-C.I.A. SPY CHIEF TO RUN POLICE INTELLIGENCE

A former spy master with the Central Intelligence Agency joined the New
York Police Department yesterday to serve as its deputy commissioner for
intelligence, a new position that was created to help steer the department
through the post- Sept. 11 world.

The new deputy commissioner, David Cohen, spent 35 years in the C.I.A.,
including two years, 1995 to 1997, as director of operations, a post in
which he oversaw the agency's espionage around the world.

"Strong intelligence will be needed to help deter and protect against
terrorist threats or any other threat to the security that our citizens,
our visitors and our guests have every right to expect," Mr. Cohen said at
a news conference at City Hall. "We need to understand what these threats
are, what form they take, where they're coming from and who's responsible,
and intelligence must play a central role in that."

Mr. Cohen is not the first high-ranking former federal official who has
recently joined the Police Department to help it branch out from fighting
crime and cracking down on quality-of-life violations to gathering
intelligence and preparing itself for terrorism. Frank Libutti, a highly
decorated former lieutenant general in the Marines, joined the department
earlier this month in another new position, deputy commissioner for
counterterrorism.

Mr. Cohen's salary will be $146,161.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg endorsed the appointment warmly. "This makes us
the only police department, I believe, in the United States with somebody
of this stature focusing on intelligence," he said. "I think it is just a
reflection of how we should be dealing in the 21st century."

The new position reflects a significant change for the Police Department.
Up to now the department's intelligence division, which oversees a variety
of tasks, including collecting information on criminal groups and
protecting elected officials, had been led by an assistant chief. Mr. Cohen
will report directly to Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly.

He has been charged with placing new emphasis on investigating terrorism,
international crime, drug trafficking and money laundering, as well as
sharing more information with the C.I.A., the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and other law enforcement agencies around the country and the
world.

Commissioner Kelly said that in another break with the past, officers from
the intelligence division had been assigned to every precinct in the city
to help with the exchange of information between headquarters and officers.

Mr. Cohen said the Police Department might try to infiltrate terrorist
cells, the way it sometimes infiltrates drug gangs and the Mafia. If a cell
"requires penetration, within legal bounds, it will be done," he said.

The former spy was clearly not used to publicity. Asked his age, he allowed
only that he is between 28 and 70. Asked if he ever worked in the C.I.A.'s
office in the World Trade Center, he laughed and said, "You're going to
have to ask C.I.A. where their offices were."

When it was over, he joked about the meeting with reporters: "It's the
first press conference I've ever been to. It was sort of like my bar mitzvah."