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Untitled Document former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey dismissed claims that opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling would improve America's national security, and asserted that drilling the Arctic would in fact weaken our energy security by increasing our reliance on the vulnerable Trans Alaska Pipeline. "The bottom line is that we'll be dependent on the Middle East as long as we are dependent on oil," said Woolsey, who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1993 to 1995. "Drilling in ANWR is not a recipe for America's national security. The only answer is to use substantially less petroleum."