Working Group on Intelligence Reform

The Working Group is a project of the National Strategy Information Center's Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (CSI). It is the only ongoing, unclassified forum in which leading government and nongovernment intelligence experts regularly exchange ideas about the future of US intelligence and discuss proposals for its reform. Members of the Working Group include current and former senior intelligence officials, current and former senior officials in the Departments of State and Defense, Democratic and Republican staff members of the congressional oversight committees, and academic specialists.

The Working Group was established in 1992, well before the wave of criticism of the performance of US intelligence that led to the creation of the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the US Intelligence Community. Dissatisfied with the substance and limited character of the intelligence reform debate as it emerged in the early 1990s, CSI established the Working Group to stimulate and expand that debate.

People

Co-Chairs

• Roy Godson
• Ernest R. May

Members

• R Adm. Thomas Brooks, USN (Ret.) Vice President of Government Markets, AT&T
• Dr. Eliot Cohen Director of Strategic Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
• Brian Dailey Vice President,Business Development and Washington Operations, Lockheed Corporation
• Dr. Jack Davis Former Senior Official, Central Intelligence Agency
• Captain Fred Demech, Jr., USN Former Executive Director, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• Randall Fort Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Functional Analysis and Research, US Department of State
• Dr. John Foster, Jr. Chairman, Technology Strategies and Alliances
• Dr. Roy Godson, Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, Georgetown University
• Mr. W. Douglas Gow Former Associate Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Mr. David Gries Former Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA
• Brig. Gen. Walter Jajko, USAF (Ret.) Assistant to the Secretary for Intelligence Oversight, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• Dr. John Keliher Former Director, Office of Nonproliferation and National Security, US Department of Energy
• Mr. Richard Kerr Former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
• Dr. Brian Latell Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA
• Dr. Carnes Lord Former National Security Advisor to the Vice President
• Mr. Douglas MacEachin Former Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
• Mr. John MacGaffin
• Dr. Stephen Rosen Former Senior Official, Central Intelligence Agency
• Mr. David Major Former Special Assistant to the Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Mr. Andrew Marshall Director, Net Assessment, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
• Dr. Ernest R. May Harvard University
• Dr. John Millis House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
• Amb. James Nolan Former Director, Office of Foreign Missions, US Department of State
• Dr. William J. Olson Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of International Narcotics
• Mr. George Pickett Director, Northrop Grumman Analysis Center
• Ms. Diane Roark House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
• DR Stephen Rpsen Associate Director, John M. Olin Center for International Studies, Harvard University
• Dr. Gary Schmitt Former Executive Director, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• Dr. Abram N. Shulsky Senior Fellow, National Strategy Information Center
• Mr. Thomas Smeeton Former Administrator/Chief Investigator, House Committee on the Judiciary
• Ms. Nina Stewart Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Mr. Robert F. Turner Associate Director, Center for Law and National Security, University of Virginia School of Law
• Lt. Gen. C. Norman Wood, USAF (Ret.) Former Director, Intelligence Community Staff;

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