[Chat] Former CIA Director to speak next week

[Emil Volcheck]

Hello, neighbors,

Here is an announcement from the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs.
If you'd like to come, please let me know as Kathleen and I are members.

--Emil

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The Trustees of the

BALTIMORE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Cordially Invite You to an Address by



R. JAMES WOOLSEY

FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
VICE PRESIDENT, BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON


THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008

Reception: 5:15 p.m.          Address: 6:00 – 7:10 p.m.

WORLD TRADE CENTER BALTIMORE - CONSTELLATION ROOM

401 EAST PRATT STREET, BALTIMORE

Members: Free of Charge  - Guest of a Member: $10.00  -

Non-Members*: $15.00


INTELLIGENCE AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN GLOBAL STRATEGY



The C.I.A.'s responsibility for intelligence to inform national
policy development and decision making is of constant interest to us;
as are, its covert operations which are especially important in an era
of dangerous substate actors.  Dilemmas inherent in its type of work
occasionally dramatically present themselves, as in two matters of the
moment: a national intelligence estimate publicly impacting policy and
the destruction of videotapes of prisoner interrogations which was
possibly a criminal act, perhaps in an attempt to avoid explosive
anti-American propaganda.  Intelligence dilemmas of the moment, covert
requirements, and the rational grounding of American strategy have our
attention.  We are fortunate to have these fundamental and pressing
matters addressed for us by a former Director of Central Intelligence,
R. James Woolsey.

Mr. Woolsey served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions:
Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995; Ambassador to the
Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna,
1989-1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-1979; and General Counsel
to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970-1973.  He was
also appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the
U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and
Space Arms Talks (NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time
basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983-1986.  As an officer in the
U.S. Army he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic
Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969-1970.

Mr. Woolsey is a Vice President and officer at Booz Allen Hamilton, is
a managing director of the Homeland Security Fund of Palatine Capital
Group, and has served on the Boards of major companies in the
technology and security fields. He is currently Co-Chairman (with
former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the committee on the
Present Danger and over the years has been a key member of numerous
policy advocacy groups.He has served on many Presidential commissions
including the Rumsfeld Commission (the Ballistic Missile threat), the
Packard Commission (Defense Management), and the Scowcroft Commission
(strategic forces).  He also has served as a trustee of major
educational institutions, including Stanford University and the
Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of
articles to major publications.

A graduate of Stanford University (1963, with great distinction, Phi
Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar,
1963-1965), and an LLB from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of
the Yale Law Journal), with 12 years in government and 22 years in the
practice of law, Mr. Woolsey remains extraordinarily engaged in the
nation's affairs.

It is a pleasure and honor to welcome, Mr. R. James Woolsey, to the Council.