Further Probe Into Holdings of CIA Nominee Set to End

After two months of investigating CIA Director-designate George J. Tenet’s past failure to disclose stock and real estate he said he did not know he owned, the Justice Department’s public-integrity section is about to recommend against appointing an independent counsel to probe the matter any further, according to officials familiar with the inquiry.

At Tenet’s request, confirmation votes by the Senate Intelligence Committee as well as the full Senate on his nomination have been delayed while the Justice Department was preparing the report. One official said a report is being written and should be released “shortly.”

At issue are telephone stock and condominium apartments in Greece that Tenet inherited from his father, who died in 1983, but that Tenet did not list on his initial financial-disclosure forms when he joined the Clinton administration in 1993 as a senior staff member of the National Security Council.