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Born September 21 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Married to Susan Haley Woolsey with whom he has three sons. Woolsey was appointed Director of the CIA by President William Jefferson Clinton on January 21, 1993. Woolsey was confirmed by Senate, February 3, 1993 and sworn in two days later. As a leading Neo-Conservative Woolsey has grown more influential since leaving the CIA. He is close to the leaders of the movement including Bernard Lewis, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.

Education:

Stanford University, B.A., 1963; Rhodes Scholar, St. John’s College, Oxford University, B.A. (Rhodes Scholar), 1965, M.A., 1970; Yale University, LL.B., 1968

Public Career Highlights:

• Captain, US Army, 1968-70; Program Analyst, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1968-70

• National Security Council Staff, 1970; Adviser with US Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969-70

• General Counsel, Committee on Armed Services, US Senate, 1970-73

• Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-79

• Delegate-at-Large, US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Talks (NST), Geneva, 1983-86

• President’s Commission on Strategic Forces, 1983-84; President’s Commission on Defense Management, 1985-86; President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989

• Ambassador and US Representative, negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, 1989-91

Private sector:

Private law practice a total of 22 years with Shea & Gardner starting in 1973.

• Law clients have included The I.N.C. and Ahmad Chalabi. Shea & Gardner registered as a foreign agent for the Iraqi National Congress.

Vice president and officer of Booz Allen Hamilton (global assurance practice McLean, Virginia) from July 2002

• Global assurance practice, McLean, Virginia

Books:

• Keeping America Safe: Studies in Strategic Military Policy and Paul Warnke University Press of America, 1982

• The Uses and Abuses of Analysis in the Defense Environment: A Conversation with R. James Woolsey American Enterprise Institute

• The War Against America: Saddam Hussein & the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study of Revenge (and Laurie Mylroie) HarperCollins, 2001

Woolsey quote: "Throughout the decades of American involvement in the Middle East, the intelligence community has been a silent partner with Israel." Special Report

Odds and Ends

SOUTHWEST ASIA Iranian News: Who did Chalabi work for, Iran or Israel?

Has worked with JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs)

Signatory to the The PNAC Clinton Letter

Prince Hassan as King of Iraq

King and Country The Hashemite solution for Iraq

For Further Reading:

Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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