Resume
Summary More than 50 years with CIA (including part-time contracting since 1985) as staff officer/editor.
Vice president of consulting firm servicing
interagency emergency planning program as policy analyst, program planner, and technical writer.
Writer/editor for CIA intelligence production offices, National Intelligence Council, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Time-Life Books; polygraph-based TS/SCI.
Experience
2002- Present CIA/NESA, edit research papers, tutor analysts; CIA/NHRTC, compile, edit and proofread collection guidance manuals; Booz Allen Hamilton, edit and proofread reports and proposals
1999-2004 CIA/OREA, edited two-volume military history; CIA/OTE, wrote and directed political-military simulations, indexed Studies in Intelligence.
1993-1999 Center for the Study of Intelligence and OIM, redacted and indexed JFK Assassination Files documents; edited five books; conducted and edited oral history interviews.
1988-1993 Striges, Inc. as vice president analyzed and edited policy papers, wrote plans, training programs and scenarios, directed consultants in emergency planning exercises; CIA/NIC, edited National Intelligence Estimates.
1985-1988 Systems Planning Corporation, as consultant contributed to strategic policy and planning studies, supported management training programs.
1982-1985 Central Intelligence Agency, as Senior Intelligence Officer, edited President?s Daily Brief, supervised overnight current intelligence updating and production, and prepared and occasionally gave briefings for the White House and Cabinet officers; as Chief Editor, National Intelligence Daily, edited and coordinated contributions to the NID, trained and directed other editors, instructed analysts in current intelligence writing.
1980-1982 Time-Life Books, as text editor wrote and edited chapters and photo essays for the WWII history series.
1978-1980 CIA/Center for the Study of Intelligence, as deputy director of the Center and editor of Studies in Intelligence, edited and published a quarterly journal and helped direct a scholarly research program; helped plan and develop present CIA History Staff.
1976-1977 CIA/Office of Regional and Political Analysis, as Deputy Director facilitated reorientation of current intelligence analysis and assisted in reorganizing intelligence research; was briefly executive assistant to D/NFAC.
1968; 1970-1976 CIA/Office of Current Intelligence, as Production Officer (1968) reviewed, edited and coordinated current and basic intelligence products on the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia; as Branch Chief (1970-75) directed current intelligence and National Intelligence Survey production on the Middle East and North Africa and headed intelligence task forces in 1970 and 1973; as Division Chief (1976) directed current intelligence production on Latin America.
1969 Executive Staff, O/DDI, as staff chief coordinated directorate tasking and program planning, conducted inter-directorate and interagency liaison and Congressional and public information support; reviewed and edited intelligence publications, drafted briefings and correspondence; served as gatekeeper and briefer.
1963-1967 Executive Staff, CIA/Deputy Director for Intelligence, performed staff duties pertaining to intelligence analysis, research, production and distribution, including liaison and analytic duties with National Intelligence Estimates production and US Intelligence Board deliberations; supervised interagency finished intelligence coordination; conducted foreign intelligence liaison; served as executive secretary and staff director of the Interagency Vietnam Reporting Group and coordinated and edited the Weekly Vietnam Executive Intelligence Summary.
1951-1963 Foreign Broadcast Information Service (CIA), as editor and later staff director at various overseas monitoring posts, directed the transcription, translation, and editing of foreign radio and press transmissions. In Washington, compiled and edited sections of the Far East Daily Report and served as a special projects and wire service editor. Served nine months in US Army, 502d Airborne Infantry Regiment, 101st Division, and The Engineer Center Regiment.
Education B.A. Political Science, University of Pittsburgh (1951); diploma, National War College (1973).
Pre-professional Edited high school and college newspapers, edited and reported for suburban weekly newspapers, stringer for three daily newspapers and United Press. Wrote editorials, theater reviews, humor columns. Won writing and editing prizes and two college scholarships.
Sang in professional men and boys choir and an amateur male quartet, played trombone in high school and military bands and a dance band. Played the lead in high school operettas, musical revues, and senior class play.
Was a Boy Scout, worked as a messenger for a drug store and as a stock clerk in a department store.
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