Colloquium on Covert Action

The Colloquium on Covert Action was held in Washington D.C. on 30-31 December 1981. The gathering, convened by the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, involved "over sixty academics, current and former intelligence practitioners from the US and abroad, and Congressional specialists on intelligence."

Participants

• Gen. Giuseppe D'Ambrosio, Deputy Director, SISME Professor of Military Institutions, Catholic University of Milan.
• Daniel C. Arnold, Former Chief, Evaluations, Plans & Design Staff, DDO, CIA.
• Frank R. Barnett, President, National Strategy Information Center
• John Barron, Senior Editor, Reader's Digest
• Dr Arnold Beichman, Freelance Writer, Professor of Political Science.
• Dr Richard Bissell, managing Editor, Orbis.
• Ladislav Bittman, Formerly with the Czechoslovak Intelligence Service.
• Dr Adda B. Bozeman, Professor of International Relations, Sarah Lawrence College.
• Richard Burt, The New York Times
• Dr Ray S. Cline, Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, Former Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA.
• Dr Angelo Codevilla, Professional Staff Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Eugene Douglas, Director, International Trade and Government Affairs, Memorex Corporation.
• Dr John J. Dziak, Senior Soviet Specialist, DIA.
• Suzanne Garment, Associate Editor of the Editorial Page, The Wall Street Journal.
• Dr Stephen P. Gibert, Professor of Government; and Director, National Security Studies Program, Georgetown University.
• Richard H. Giza, Professional Staff Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Dr Roy Godson, Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University; Research Associate, National Strategy Information Center.
• Kenneth E. deGraffenreid, Professional Staff Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Jonathan Hall-Tipping, Former head of British Defence International Liaison Staff of Washington DC.
• Samuel Halpern, Former Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director for Plans, CIA.
• Dr Samuel P. Huntington, Professor of Government, Harvard University.
• Donald Jameson, Former Covert Action Specialist, Soviet Division, [[[CIA Directorate of Operations|DDO]], CIA.
• Roger Kaplan, Program Officer, Smith Richardson Foundation.
• Thomas K. Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Hubert Leonard, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.
• William Lewis, Trustee, Space Studies Institute, Princeton, New Jersey.
• Charles M. Lichenstein, Counsel to the Public Broadcasting Service.
• John M. Maury, President, AFIO; Former Chief Soviet Russia Division, DDP, CIA.

Hon. Franco Mazzola, Undersecretary to the President of the Council of Ministers, and General Coordinator of the Italian Security Services.

• Cord Meyer, Syndicated Columnist, Former Assistant Deputy Director for Plans, CIA.
• Hon J. William Middendorf, Former Secretary of the Navy.
• Prof. John Norton Moore, Director, Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia Law School.
• Robert Moss, Author, Columnist.
• Lionel H. Olmer, Director of International Programs, Motorola, Inc.
• Michael O'Neil, Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Donald J. Purcell, Former Chief, Covert Action Staff, CIA.
• Alfred S. Regnery, Legislative Counsel to Senator Paul Laxalt.
• Herbert Romerstein, Permanent Staff Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Gen Edward L. Rowney, Former JCS Representative to SALT Negotiations.
• Allan Ryskind, Editor, Human Events.
• Dr. Mark Schneider, Professional Staff Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Dr. Paul Seabury, Professor of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley.
• Jerry Seib, The Wall Street Journal
• Theodore G. Shackley, Former Associate Deputy Director for Operations, CIA.
• Dr Abram Shulsky, Professional Staff Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Annette Smiley, Professional Staff Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Paul A. Smith, Jr., editor, Problems of Communism.
• Daniel R. Southerland, Christian Science Monitor.
• Professor W. Scott Thompson, Associate Professor of Government, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
• Hugh Tovar, Former Chief, Covert Action Staff, CIA.
• Dr Frank N. Trager, Director, National Security Education Program, New York University; Director of Studies, National Strategy Information Center.
• Helen Trager, Author.
• P.L. Thyraud de Vosjoli, Former Chief of Station, SDECE.
• Edwin Warner, TIME, Inc.
• John Warner, Former General Counsel, CIA.
• Gen. Vernon Walters, Former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.
• Dr [[Allen Weinstein], Professor of History, Smith College.
• Lee Williams, Former Chief of Station, CIA.
• Richard Wilson, Department of Organization, AFL-CIO.
• Hon. C.W. Bill Young, M.C. Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.