Ray Cline
Ray Cline (1918-1996) was the CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence from 1962 to 1966.[1]
Background
Cline was born in Anderson Township, Illinois, in 1918. He grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana. He received a Harvard scholarship in 1935.[2]
OSS
Cline served in the OSS during World War Two.[2]
CIA
Cline joined the CIA in 1949.[2]
As chief of the agency's staff on the Sino-Soviet bloc from 1953 to 1957, he predicted the Sino-Soviet split.[2]
He served as station chief in Taiwan from 1958 to 1962, under the official title of chief, United States Naval Auxiliary Communications Center.[2]
He was the CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence from 1962 to 1966.[1]
He was chief of station in Bonn from 1966 to 1969.[2]
State Department
Mr. Cline left the C.I.A. in 1969 and served as the State Department's chief of intelligence analysis.[2]
He gave up Government work in 1973, becoming an executive director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University.[2]
In retirement, he served as head of the Taiwan Committee for a Free China.[2]
Affiliations
- Committee on the Present Danger (1976 version)
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, Founder Member
- United States Global Strategy Council - founder and chair.
- 1988 International advisory board Political Communication and Persuasion
Conferences
- 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
- 1979 Colloquium on Analysis and Estimates
- 1980 Colloquium on Counterintelligence
- 1987 Colloquium on Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s
Resources
External Resources
- History Commons Ray Cline
- Namebase Cline Ray Steiner
- Sourcewatch Ray Cline
- Ray S. Cline Papers A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress Prepared by Bradley E. Gernand with the assistance of Lisa Madison and Jennifer Barbour. Revised and expanded by Bradley E. Gernand. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2011.
- Spartacus International Ray S. Cline.
Notes
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Godfrey Hodgson, Obituary: Ray Cline, Independent, 19 March 1996.
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Tim Weiner, Ray S. Cline, Chief C.I.A. Analyst, Is Dead at 77, New York Times, 16 March 1996.