SECTION I - CURRENT INTELLIGENCE

RUSSIANS PASSED INVASION PLANS TO SADDAM - DoD, in a 210-page report titled Iraqi Perspectives Project, said the Russian government gave Saddam Hussein US strategic war plans for the invasion of Iraq obtained by a mole at CENTCOM in Qatar, the press reported.
Sen. Pat Roberts, intelligence committee chairman, pointed out that Saddam ignored the Russian-supplied information, the Washington Times noted.
www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060326-111839-8426r.htm 
"Saddam Hussein just didn't get it in regards to the invasion whether we would be successful or not," he said. "He's an egomaniac."
DoD was reported to consider that the Russians had a mole in CENCOME in Doha, Qatar, who passed on secrets to the Russians who in turn passed intelligence to Saddam's regime. US forces confiscated documents after the Iraq invasion that showed communications between Russian officials and the Iraqi military high command prior to the invasion.
The Russian ambassador to Iraq, Vladimir Teterenko, reportedly disclosed the US war plans to Saddam and his commanders. Two documents dated March 2003 described details of the US military strategic and tactical plans, MichNews.com posted on 26 March.
www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_12242.shtml
One of the documents was a handwritten account of a meeting between Teterenko and Iraqi military and diplomatic officials. The document detailed his description of the composition, size, location and type of US military forces arrayed in the Gulf and Jordan. It also included the deployment numbers of tanks, armored vehicles, different types of aircraft, missiles, helicopters, aircraft carriers, and other forces together with their exact locations. The ambassador also described the positions of two Special Forces units, according to ABC News.
The second document was a typed account, signed by Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Hammam Abdel Khaleq, saying Teterenko told the Iraqis the United States was planning to deploy its force into Iraq from Basra in the South and up the Euphrates, and would avoid entering major cities on the way to Baghdad.
Teterenko is mentioned in documents released by the Volker Commission investigation into the UN Oil-for-Food scandal, as receiving allocations of 3 million barrels of oil, worth roughly $1.5 million, MichNews said.
One piece of intelligence passed on was false and helped a key US deception effort, the DoD report said. GRU, according to a document from Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri to Saddam, said the attack would not begin until the Army's 4th Infantry Division arrived about 15 April. This reinforced an impression the US military was trying to create in order to catch Iraqis by surprise with an earlier attack, DoD said. The assault on Baghdad began well before the 4th Division arrived and the city fell about a week before 15 April.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4843394.stm 
AP reported a highly respected Russian military analyst, Pavel Felgenhauer as agreeing that Russia had an MI unit operating in Iraq up through the 2003 US invasion and fall of Baghdad.
breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/R/RUSSIA_US_IRAQ_WAR?ar 24, 10:04 PM EST
Felgenhauer said a unit affiliated with the Defense Ministry's GRU, was actively working in Iraq at the time of the invasion. At that time, he said, there was an Internet site in Russian called "The Ramzay Files" that caused a stir in Moscow's military and diplomatic community. The site posted insights, predictions and analysis into US military activities that former GRU officials told him appeared to be the kind that only highly placed Russian intelligence officials in Iraq would have.
On 25 March, Russia's SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service) denied that American military secrets had been passed to Iraq. The following day, Secretary Rice said the United States would seek clarification from Russia on whether it had helped pass such information. Speaking on Fox News Sunday and NBC's Meet the Press, she declined make any specific allegations about Russian involvement, the New York Times reported.
www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/international/europe/27diplo.html?pagewanted=all
DoD was holding a classified version of its report. (DKR)

CIA WISELY TELLS AGENCY BLOGGERS TO CLEAR FOR PUBLICATION - The CIA's Publications Review Board is sending terse reminders to Agency veterans reminding them of the rules requiring that any writings -- even blogs -- must first get Agency approval, according to US News and World Report.
www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/articles/060327/27whisplead.htm
Blogger and ex-Agency man Larry Johnson told USNews he smelt censorship. "It's very selective," Johnson said. He has been critical of CIA's failure to defend outed Valerie Plame. His note from CIA referred to his blogging.
But a CIA spokesman called the reminder standard operating procedure. "Should anyone be surprised if CIA reminds people of the obligations they voluntarily assumed?" the Agency asked in a statement. Exempted from the review list were radio and TV appearances, unless written notes are used. (DKR)

SECTION II - CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE

NSA SAID FREE TO SURVEIL PRIVILEGED TALK - NSA has the authority to listen without warrants to conversations between lawyers and their clients and doctors and their patients if a connection to Al Qaeda is suspected, DoJ reported to Congress, according to the New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2006/03/25/politics/25nsa.html?pagewanted=all
Although the program does not specifically target the communications of attorneys or physicians, calls involving such persons would not be categorically excluded from interception if they met other requirements, among them a suspected link to Al Qaeda and when one party is outside the United States, said the DoJ report released on 24 March.
DoJ was responding to nearly 100 questions posed by Republicans and Democrats about NSA's eavesdropping program.
DoJ defended the legality of the program on the basis of President Bush's constitutional authority to protect the country and a Congressional resolution passed after 9/11. And exempting any one group or profession provides a convenient backdoor for terrorist information exchange.
The department characterized as flawed and unfounded charges that the program violated FISA which required warrants from a special court for eavesdropping operations in intelligence cases.
DoJ also defended the effectiveness of the program against suggestions from some law enforcement officials that it had led to far more dead ends than productive leads. With the operation aimed at preventing another terrorist attack, the department said it was confident the program is helping to achieve that goal. (DKR)

SADDAM�S FM PAID BY CIA THROUGH FRENCH - Naji Sabri, Saddam Hussein's foreign minister, was paid for information he supplied to the CIA through French intelligence, the New York Times reported on 22 March.
www.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/politics/22intel.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Sabri, foreign minister from 2001 until the 2003 invasion, was first described publicly by then DCI Tenet in a 2004 speech as a source who had direct access to Saddam and his inner circle. But Tenet did not identify Sabri by name.
French intel officers acted as intermediaries with Sabri who did not meet directly with CIA operatives. According to a US official, Sabri may not have known for certain that his information was going to USG or that the money he received, reported by NBC as more than $100,000, came from the Agency.
Sabri, who is teaching at a university in the Middle East outside Iraq, declined to discuss the report, NBC reported. And one understandably question the motivations of the NYTimes, in releasing this information and identifying Sabri, while he remains in the Middle East and an easy target for retribution. Why do we treat a brave source in this manner? (DKR)

SECTION III - CYBER INTELLIGENCE

FBI  IT SAID AT RISK FROM MISMANAGEMENT - The FBI�s poor record of managing its Trilogy IT modernization program puts it at high risk of mismanaging Sentinel, a new program to create an automated case file management system, FCW.com reported congressional auditors as saying. FBI officials also warned that funding problems could stall the bureau�s efforts to modernize its IT operations.
www.fcw.com/article92741-03-27-06-Print
On 21 March, the GAO said the FBI and GSA lacked sufficient management controls to prevent more than $17 million in potential overcharging and lost or stolen equipment in the IT modernization program.
Earlier, news stories revealed that the bureau could not afford e-mail accounts for all of its 2,000 agents in New York City. FBI CIO Zalmai Azmi acknowledged that the bureau does not have enough money to pay for essential IT services such as e-mail. The FBI receives $300 million a year to support 42,000 federal, state, local and contractor partners in law enforcement worldwide. That averages to about $7,100 per person, Azmi said. "You can do the math and tell if I have enough money." (DKR)

USN GIVES EDS EXTENSION ON NMCI CONTRACT - The US Navy has awarded EDS a $3.1 billion extension of the Navy Marine Corps Intranet contract designed to connect 500,000 Navy and Marine personnel worldwide, FCW.com reported on 27 March.
www.fcw.com/article92742-03-27-06-Web
In 2000, USN awarded EDS the NMCI deal at an estimated value of $9 billion. The NMCI extension preserves the 15 percent seat price reduction locked in during the first phase of the contract. (DKR)

BRITISH BIOMETRIC PASSPORTS SET FOR 2009 - Issuing passports carrying fingerprint or iris-scan information will be linked to an EU directive to be implemented in 2009, according to a leaked Home Office document, the Sunday Telegraph (London) reported on 26 March.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/26/npassport26.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/26/ixhome.html
From 2008 all British passport applicants will also be given an ID card. The current �51 ($89) passport fee will soar if biometric details are introduced. The Government calculates the cost to be �5.8 billion ($10.1 billion) over 10 years, pushing the price of a combined passport and ID card to �93 ($162). (DKR)

SECTION IV -- BOOKS, SOURCES, AND ISSUES

Books

HISTORIAN PICKS FIVE BOOKS ON BATTLES - Victor Davis Hanson is a noted classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution and author of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, published in 2005. On 25 March, WSJ.com Opinion Journal carried his pick of the five most definitive books on 20th century battles.
www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/fivebest/?id=110008143
Here are Hanson's choices:
1. Alistair Horne, The Price of Glory, 1963. Over the course of 10 months in 1916, the French and Germans killed or wounded about 1.25 million of their best soldiers in a battle near the French town of Verdun. The Germans had a plan to bleed the French white, and both sides saw a German breakthrough as possibly catastrophic for the Allies. Thanks to Horne's brilliance, says Hanson, Verdun is seared in popular memory as a slaughterhouse where well-meaning but often clueless 19th-century generals threw the youth of the 20th century into an inferno.
2. E.B.Sledge, With the Old Breed, 1981. Sledge, who landed with the Marines on both Okinawa and Peleliu islands, has written by far the most haunting memoir of the crucial battle for Okinawa, says Hanson.
Sledge describes in matter-of-fact prose how the superior discipline and bonds between fellow Marines overcame the often brilliant fighting of the Japanese, who greatly outnumbered them and fought from impenetrable subterranean concrete and coral-covered emplacements.
Sledge reminds us how well the US was served by men such as his own.
3. John Keegan, The Face of Battle, 1976. Sir John sets out the experience of battle as undergone by soldiers from Agincourt in 1415 to the Somme five centuries later, taking in Waterloo on the way.
He writes compellingly about fear and honor, the effect of steel and shot on flesh, and what men ate and how they kept warm and armed before battle. Hanson finds that other efforts to convey ground-eye views of battle have never matched the detail and anguish, or the literary artistry, of Keegan's masterpiece.
4. Antony Beevor, Stalingrad, 1998. An extraordinary account of the terrible conflict in which in 1942 German tanks met Soviets' T-34s, the Luftwaffe faced skies full of rockets, and a million Russians fought the last crack troops that an exhausted Germany could throw at them.
Soldiers on both sides accepted that capture meant death immediately or from disease and starvation in frigid detention camps.
At Stalingrad, Hanson says, the Russians proved the better tacticians and had the superior generals, ending for good any notions that the Germans would go farther east.
5. Elmer Bendiner, The Fall of Fortresses, 1980.The best personal account of American daylight bombing over Germany. Bendiner, a navigator on a B-17 Flying Fortress, describes how the Army Air Corps asked crews to do the impossible: fly in daylight without escort into the face of thousands of German fighters and experienced flak batteries. More than 25,000 airmen died.
"This book, framed around the nightmarish second Schweinfurt sortie, shows how the crews' high �lan and skill fostered persistence despite perceived hopelessness," writes Hanson.
"Bendiner reminds us in stark prose that, especially in the war's early years, the enemy enjoyed advantages of equipment, command and terrain; we simply had superior morale -- and more flexible and innovative soldiers, who deeply believed that things would finally get better." (DKR)

Issues

IRAN�S NUKES �CAN BE ELIMINATED IN TWO DAYS� - Former senior CIA officer Gary Berntsen said the US could easily eliminate Iran nukes in two days, according to the Jerusalem Post as reported by the Conservative voice.com on 24 March.
www.theconservativevoice.com/article/13330.html
The United States could use bunker-buster bombs and other weapons to affect the maneuver said Berntsen, author of the recently published Jawbreaker about his experiences as the senior CIA operative who led the search for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in late 2001.
He believes the United States has the ability to easily destroy Iran's nuclear facilities by using bunker-buster bombs and other weapons but warned that any ground operations against Iran would be unwise, due to the sheer size of the country. He also ruled out any covert actions, because of the scale of its nuclear operations: "This is a huge system of facilities they have. This is not going to be a small sort of engagement. We are probably going to have to destroy 30 facilities in 30 locations. Or at least 15."
The Tehran regime will lie and cheat and do whatever it has to do to get a nuclear weapon, he said. (DKR)

SECTION V -- CAREERS, NOTES, LETTERS, QUERIES AND AUTHORS SEEKING ASSISTANCE, CORRECTIONS, OBITUARIES, COMING EVENTS

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Notes

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Assistance Sought

TV SEEKS EARLY WIESBADEN U-2 FLIGHT VETS - German public television is making a documentary on the early U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union, conducted from the Wiesbaden Air Base, and is searching for anyone who might have been in Wiesbaden in the late 1950s or was otherwise associated with these U-2 operations. Please contact Gene Poteat at Poteat@afio.com..

Obituaries

THOMAS L. BURNS - A retired NSA cryptologist who then wrote a history of the agency�s origins, died 15 March, aged 87, in hospital in Bethesda, MD, the Washington Post reported. He had acute respiratory distress syndrome.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032401869.html
During World War II, Burns served at Arlington with the Army Signal Security Agency, which helped break German and Japanese codes and was a precursor to the NSA. After he retired, he was asked to return and write the definitive history of the NSA�s origins. Later declassified, it was published as The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940-1952.
A native of Albion, NY, he graduated in 1941 with a degree in history from Canisius College in Buffalo. He received a master�s degree in personnel management from George Washington University in 1958.
His wife, Sara Ruth Hammond Burns, whom he married in 1951, died in 1997. A son, James Burns, died in 2003. Survivors include three daughters, Mary Ebrahimpour, Susan Strand, and Margaret Pudvah; a sister; and 13 grandchildren. (EB, DKR)

Wednesday, 5 April 06 - Nellis AFB, Nevada - AFIO Las Vegas hosts an evening meeting (6 p.m.) featuring DANIEL G. BOGDEN, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, on "An Overview of the United States Attorney's Office programs, including Violent Crimes, Terrorism and Public Corruption"
Place: The Officers' Club at Nellis Air Force Base. All guests must use the MAIN GATE located at the intersection on Craig and Las Vegas Blvd. 5871 Fitzgerald Blvd., Nellis AFB, NV 89191 Phone: 702-644-2582.
Dinner: The Officers' Club has an excellent, informal dinner. Arrive early and join them in the bar reception area. Spouses are always welcomed.
If you are a member of the chapter, or in the area and considering joining AFIO, or an AFIO member from elsewhere, now is the time to sign-up and say hello. The chapter representative needs to know right away so that your name can be submitted to satisfy Nellis AFB base-access requirements. Access will be through the Main Gate and names not on the list will not gain access. Supply your name and names of your guests.no later than next Thursday, March 30th.
TO RESERVE or for MORE INFO: email or call Christine Eppley, Chapter Secretary, at EPPLEY@nv.doe.gov or 702-295-0073. They look forward to seeing you!
 

Wednesday, 5 April 06 - Washington, DC - The Secret History of History: Benjamin Franklin: Master of Intrigue  "Do nothing but what spies may see and welcome." - Benjamin Franklin  Starts at 6:30 p.m.  He played France against Britain and enabled the President to outguess and outmaneuver the Redcoats. Who was this 18th century super spymaster? None other than Benjamin Franklin! The Quaker sage is too little known for his crafty management of a U.S. intelligence network during the Revolutionary War. As a founder of the Committee on Secret Correspondence, he had expertise in the full array of sophisticated spycraft - from secret writing to calculated leaks - and he wasn�t afraid to use it. Join James Srodes, author of Franklin: The Essential Founding Father, and Thomas B. Allen, author of George Washington: Spymaster, for a look at this revolutionary spy story and how Franklin�s legacy continues to affect intelligence gathering today, 300 years after his birth.  Co-sponsored by the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA in conjunction with their exhibition Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World on view through 30 April. Tickets: $15 http://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/index.asp#Register_Now

7-9 April 06 - Tutzing, Germany - "Fifty Years of Bundesnachrichtendienst, 1956-2006: The BND in Its Historical Context" - the 12th Annual Meeting of the INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE HISTORY ASSOCIATION [IIHA] at the Politische Akademie in Tutzing (nr. Munich) IIHA/AGN members are requested to send their registration AS SOON AS POSSIBLE by post or by e-mail to   Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Krieger, Fachbereich 06, Universit�t Marburg, 35032 Marburg / Germany Email: kriegerw@staff.uni-marburg.de
Please provide your full name and home address (as well as your e- mail address if possible.) Accompanying spouses are requested to register with full names and addresses and are charged at the full conference rate (see below for rates).  Conference Organizers: Dr. J�rgen Weber (Tutzing) / Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Krieger (Marburg)

Monday, 10 April - Washington, DC - Spy Seminar: Civil War Spy Profiles "They hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways." - Abraham Lincoln   Time: 6:45 p.m. to 9:25 p.m.   Neither the Blue nor the Gray were strangers to intrigue and espionage: society ladies carried secret messages, runaway slaves re-crossed the Mason-Dixon Line as undercover agents, and couriers worked covert operations in the life or death climate of wartime. This program exploring the secret work of these operatives begins at Ford's Theatre with a keynote address by Ernest B. Furgurson, author of Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War. Then Donald E. Markle, author of Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War, will explore the actions of Mary Elizabeth Bowser, an African American Union Spy, worked with spymistress Elizabeth Van Lew; and John M. Wearmouth, author of Thomas A. Jones: Chief Agent of the Confederate Secret Service in Maryland, will recount this Southern supporter's role in John Wilkes Booth's escape. Attendees will break for a brief walk to the Willard InterContinental Hotel for refreshments and the conclusion of the program, at which historical impersonator Emily Lapisardi will portray Confederate spy Antonia Ford (who married one of the Willard proprietors) and Markle will highlight Allan Pinkerton's intelligence network and counterintelligence operations for the Union. All the experts will be on hand for discussion at the close of the seminar. This Seminar is co-sponsored by the Willard InterContinental Hotel in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the hotel�s re-opening. Seminar to be held at Ford�s Theatre, National Historic Site, National Park Service and at the Willard InterContinental Hotel. Tickets: $35 http://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/index.asp#Register_Now
 

15 April 06 - Kennebunk, ME - AFIO Maine Chapter hosts Sherif Fam speaking on "Palestine in the Crosshairs: Oslo to Hamas". Mr. Fam, a U.S. citizen, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and is a retired engineer. He has been active in efforts to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict working with a number of organizations including the Boston Coalition for Palestine, in which he is a member of the steering committee, and United for Justice and Peace: Israel-Palestine Task Force. He hosts a weekly radio program "This Week in Palestine" broadcast from Boston College over station WZBC. The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. at the Kennebunk Free Library, 112 Main St., Kennebunk, ME. Call 207-985-2392 for further information.
 

20 April 06 - Tyson's Corner, VA - The Naval Intelligence Professionals annual Red Tie Luncheon will be held on Thursday, 20 April 2006 at the Holiday Inn, Tyson's Corner, VA. Guest speaker will be James F. Sloan, Assistant Commander for Intelligence and Criminal Investigations, US Coast Guard. All US and allied naval analysts welcome. Open bar from 11:00 a.m., with lunch served at noon. Cost is $30 for online or advance mail registration, or $35 at the door (reservation required). Contact http://www.navintpro.org or mail payment to: NIP, PO Box 11579, Burke, VA 22009-1579. (DKR)
 

21-22 April 06 - New London, CT - A pioneer in the development of modern U. S. Coast Guard Intelligence Operations, Lieutenant Michael Bennett, will be the featured speaker of the AFIO/NE Chapter Spring meeting at the Lighthouse Inn. Special rates for overnight guests are available by calling 888-443-8411. Two additional talks by the recipients of the Annual College Scholarship Competition will also be presented. The graduate student represents the University of New Haven's National Security Program; the undergraduate student represents Boston University's International Relations Program. A hosted Social will be held Friday evening 5:30 - 7:30 PM at the Inn. Registration begins at 9:00 AM; the meeting runs 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM. Additional information is available from Art Hulnick at 617-739-7074.
 

Saturday, 10 June 06 - Washington, DC - Spy School Workshop: Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things   "A worthy spy can make a radio out of a clam shell." Time: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Necessity is the mother of invention and some of the best spy gadgets ever invented were the product of desperation. In this workshop, Melissa Mahle, former CIA operations officer and author of Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11, will describe tense situations from her own experience in which resourcefulness and adaptability saved the day. Then Cy Tymony, author of Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things and its sequel, will demonstrate some of his most amazing creations - including the "Gadget Jacket" - and talk about how pop-culture heroes Artemus Gordon and Q inspired his work. Guests will have the opportunity to transform mundane materials into gizmos and gadgets. Adults Only Tickets: $20 http://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/index.asp#Register_Now 

Thursday, 15 June 06 - Washington, DC - Author Debriefing: Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America�s First Shadow War  On 6 June 1944, while Allied troops stormed the Normandy beaches, 300 young American, British, and French soldiers parachuted behind enemy lines to launch a secret mission codenamed Jedburgh. Working with the French Resistance, the "Jeds" embarked on a stunningly effective guerilla campaign against the German war machine. Colin Beavan, whose grandfather helped direct the operation, tells the incredible story of the daredevils who carried out America�s first special forces mission in his new book. Join the author as he highlights one of the most hazardous covert operations of World War II. Free! No registration required

Tuesday, 20 June 06 - Washington, DC - Spylight Tour: After Hours Recon at the International Spy Museum Starts at 8 p.m. What is it really like to meet an agent in the dead of night in a denied area? How do the objects on display in the Museum handle in the field? Get the spy�s-eye view in this extraordinary program. Burton Gerber is a widely respected veteran of 39 years as a CIA case officer who served in some of the Agency�s most challenging overseas posts. As chief of station in Moscow during the Cold War, he was known for his rigorous tradecraft and dedication to operations. He is the co-editor of the recent, well-received book, Transforming U.S. Intelligence. In this exclusive, after-hours tour, Gerber will bring the Museum�s unique exhibits to life with stories from his distinguished career and informed opinion on historical events. He�ll share how the gadgets really worked -- or didn�t -- and whether to include your wife in a clandestine operation. Tickets: $60 http://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/index.asp#Register_Now

16 November 06 - AFIO Rocky Mountain Chapter holds meeting at Air Force Academy Officers Club in the Falcon Room, starting at 11:30, lunch served at 12:00 and meeting ends at 1:30 pm. Speakers to be announced. Questions or Reservations to Dick Durham, 719-488-2884. or Riverwear53@aol.com.
 

12 December 06 - Tampa, FL- AFIO Suncoast Chapter meets at 11:30 a.m. at the Officers� Club, at MacDill Air Force Base. The luncheon speaker is James Pavitt. A 31-year veteran of CIA, who in 1999 was appointed Deputy Director for Operations to head what is now known as the National Clandestine Service, the CIA directorate responsible for the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence. He had served as Associate Deputy Director for Operations from July 1997 through July 1999. He served longer in that position than any DDO in the last 30 years until retiring from CIA and the DO in August 2004. After joining the Agency in 1973 as a Career Trainee, he served in a variety of intelligence assignments in Europe, Asia and at CIA Headquarters. In 1990, he was assigned to the National Security Council as the Director for Intelligence Programs. In June 1992, President Bush appointed him Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and NSC Senior Director for Intelligence Programs. Mr. Pavitt began his intelligence career in the United States Army from 1969-1971 as an intelligence officer. Jim Pavitt is currently a principle at the Scowcroft Group and also serves as a member of the AFIO National Board of Directors. For more information contact Don White, DonWhite@tampabay.rr.com