Former CIA Chief Keeps Pentagon Security Clearance

WASHINGTON —  Former CIA Director John M. Deutch still has a Pentagon security clearance that allows him to work on classified defense contracts, despite having violated security rules by keeping government secrets on home computers connected to the Internet.

The clearance permits Deutch to serve as a paid consultant on Defense Department contracts with Raytheon Corp., SAIC Corp. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Deutch is a professor at MIT.

George J. Tenet, Deutch’s successor as CIA director, announced last summer that he had stripped Deutch of his CIA security clearance as a penalty for keeping classified data on his unprotected home computers.