AFIO MEMBERSHIP LIST AND BIOGRAPHIES Compiled by: Jol van der Reijden | Published: July 8, 2014 | Updated: March 7, 2020 | Main AFIO article Branch/backgroundNames (100 total) CIA officers and civilian Army Intelligence / Marine Corps Air Force Intelligence7 Naval Intelligence Journalists and writers7 Note: NSA directors have backgrounds in the Army, Navy, or Air Force. They are not listed separately. At least three former NSA directors are prominent members of the AFIO. CIA and civilian assets Source(s): author of 'Golitsyn - Indispensible Readimg' in AFIO's magazine of Spring 1984 One of Washington, D.C. Georgetown Set CIA officers. Close to Cord Meyer, Mary Meyer, Richard Helms, and Ben Bradlee (Washington Post). Within the Agency he closely cooperated with Bill Harvey on the more illegal domestic operations and assassinations. Counterintelligence chief 1954 - December 1974. See American Security Council biography for James, Jr. Source(s): afio.com/16_locallistings.htm (accessed: Oct. 21, 2006): "The Ted Shackley Miami AFIO Chapter Chapter... James Angleton Jr., President." President of the Ted Shackley Miami chapter of the Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO). May or may not be a relative of counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton (reportedly he isn't). Seems to have served as one of the (unreliable) sources of Steven Greer's Disclosure Aquino, Col. Source(s): Nov. 6, 2009, Victoria Alexander (John Alexander's wife) for Vegas Community Online, 'Spies of the Valley' (Aquino and his wife at AFIO symposium banquet); Published twice in the AFIO's magazine, The Intelligencer: Winter 2000, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 31, '"Project Stargate" $20 Million Up In Smoke (and Mirrors)' (Colonel John A. Alexander related project) and: Summar/Fall 2011, Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 121, 'UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities: Review by Michael A. Aquino' (Book of Colonel John Alexander). In Vietnam June 1969-June 1970. Participant (rest TBD) President Ted Shackley Involved/visitor Officer in the 306th PSYOP Battalion (Strategic) and later its parent 7th PSYOP Group, USAR, during the 1970s. During that time he also performed numerous specialized assignments as a Foreign Area Officer/West Europe and Defense Attache. Worked under the well-connected neocon General Paul Vallely in the early 1980s. Attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces 1986-1987. Budget director USAR Personnel Center, St. Intelligence Officer at U.S. Space Command headquarters, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, 1990-1994. Linked to two major sadistic child abuse scandals, with his name mentioned in mainstream newspapers in one of these scandals. Advisory board member American Security Council in the 1980s. Became a close friend of Colonel John Alexander at an AFIO black tie dinner in 2009. Bio of Aquino's former boss and friend, General Paul Vallely: Ranked around the 150th place in ISGP's Superclass Index. Army officer who served in Vietnam and eventually rose to rank of deputy commanding general, Pacific before retiring. Co-author with Colonel Michael A. Aquino of the 1980 paper From PSYOP to MindWar. Vallely has shared the boards of Benador Associates, the Intelligence Summit, the Center for Security Policy, the Iran Policy Committee and Zinc Air with former CIA director James Woolsey. Aquino, who has been published by the AFIO twice, has claimed to ISGP to have never even heard about Woolsey. Co-author Gen. Thomas McInerney of the 2004 book 'Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror', with the foreword written by the controversial Oliver North. Black, Coferb. Source(s): Sep. 5, 2006, AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #35-06: "AFIO National Fall Luncheon. Friday, 8 September 06 - Vienna, VA... Speakers: Amb. J. Cofer Black..." All-boy prep school. BA from th University of Southern California (USC) in 1973, and an MA in international relations in 1974. CIA operations officer in Zambia, Rhodesia, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Africa (protecting the apartheid government against communist/socialist influences), Zaire and Angola. CIA station chief Sudan 1993-1995, during the initial Osama bin Laden controversies. Played a role in capturing Carlos the Jackal in 1994. CIA task force chief in the Near East and South Asia Division 1995-1998. CIA deputy chief of the Latin America Division Director CIA Counterterrorist Center (CTC)/ national intelligence officer for counterterrorism 1999-May 2002. In charge of the CTC's bin Laden tracking unit in this period. Failed to prevent 9/11, but was promoted nevertheless. Black was criticized for not passing on information to the FBI that 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar (of Flight 77; picked up and housed by a Saudi intelligence agent who was overseen by Saudi royals with clse ties to the Bush family) had entered the United States. They were looking for these men for weeks, only to find them on the Flight 77 passenger lists. Black in a September 13 meeting with Bush: "Now he [Black] noted the desired end was capture the al Qaeda and render them to law enforcement so they could be brought to justice. With regret, however, he had learned that the al Qaeda do not surrender, and they would not negotiate. The great martyred Northern Alliance leader Massoud had once told him "We've been fighting these guys for years and I've never captured one of these bastards". The reason was that any time one of their units was overrun they bunched together and detonated a hand grenade. So the task would be killing al Qaeda Black said. "When we're through with them they will have flies walking across their eyeballs" he said. It was an image of death that left a lasting impression on a number of war cabinet ministers. Black became known in Bush's inner circle as the "flies on the eyeballs guy" ... Black's enthusiasm was infectious ... Powell, for one, saw that Bush was tired of rhetoric. The President wanted to kill somebody." Black subsequently to the Russians: "Armitage and Black flew to Moscow to seek help from top Russian diplomatic and intelligence officials. "We're in a war," Black told the Russians. "We're coming. Regardless of what you do, we're coming anyway." He knew Afghanistan was in their sphere of influence and they would be queasy. "At the very least we want you to look away." He did not want the Russians trying to gum up CIA operations. "From my humble position, I think this is a historical opportunity. Let's get out of the last century into the next one." The Russians indicated they would help and certainly not obstruct. One noted that Afghanistan was ambush heaven, where the guerrilla fighters had demolished the Russian army. "With regret," the Russian said, "I have to say that you're really going to get the hell kicked out of you". "We're going to kill them," Black said. "We're going to put their heads on sticks. We're going to rock their world." The Russians soon sent a team to the CIA to provide extensive on-the-ground intelligence, especially about the topography and caves of Afghanistan." Ambassador at large and coordinator for counter-terrorism, State Department, under President George W. Bush December 2002 - November Vice chair Blackwater USA 2005- 2008, where he continued his old anti-terrorist CIA projects for Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush. Chairman Total Intelligence Solutions, part of the same Erik Prince Group that controlled Blackwater and equally operated in coordination with JSOC ground and drone assassinations in Pakistan. November 23, 2009, The Nation, 'The Secret US War in Pakistan': "Blackwater's work for JSOC [targeted assassinations] in Karachi is coordinated out of a Task Force based at Bagram Air Base in neighboring Afghanistan, according to the military intelligence source. While JSOC technically runs the operations in Karachi, he said, it is largely staffed by former US special operations soldiers working for a division of Blackwater, once known as Blackwater SELECT, and intelligence analysts working for a Blackwater affiliate, Total Intelligence Solutions (TIS), which is owned by Erik Prince [and ran by Cofer Black]. The military source said that the name Blackwater SELECT may have been changed recently. Total Intelligence, which is run out of an office on the ninth floor of a building in the Ballston area of Arlington, Virginia, is staffed by former analysts and operatives from the CIA, DIA, FBI and other agencies. It is modeled after the CIA's counterterrorism center. ... Until recently, Total Intelligence was run by two former top CIA officials, Cofer Black and Robert Richer, both of whom have left the company. In Pakistan, Blackwater is not using either its original name or its new moniker, Xe Services, according to the former Blackwater executive. "They are running most of their work through TIS because the other two [names] have such a stain on them," he said. ... In addition to planning drone strikes and operations against suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Pakistan for both JSOC and the CIA, the Blackwater team in Karachi also helps plan missions for JSOC inside Uzbekistan against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, according to the military intelligence source. Blackwater does not actually carry out the operations, he said, which are executed on the ground by JSOC forces. "That piqued my curiosity and really worries me because I don't know if you noticed but I was never told we are at war with Uzbekistan," he said. Blackwater, according to the military intelligence source, is not doing the actual killing as part of its work in Pakistan. "The SELECT personnel are not going into places with private aircraft and going after targets," he said. "It's not like Blackwater SELECT people are running around assassinating people." Instead, US Special Forces teams carry out the plans developed in part by Blackwater. The military intelligence source drew a distinction between the Blackwater operatives who work for the State Department, which he calls "Blackwater Vanilla," and the seasoned Special Forces veterans who work on the JSOC program. "Good or bad, there's a small number of people who know how to pull off an operation like that. That's probably a good thing," said the source. "It's the Blackwater SELECT people that have and continue to plan these types of operations because they're the only people that know how and they went where the money was. It's not trigger-happy fucks, like some of the PSD [Personal Security Detail] guys. These are not people that believe that Barack Obama is a socialist, these are not people that kill innocent civilians. They're very good at what they do."" CEO of The Black Group, a private firm specializing in providing security processes and services to private corporations and government agencies. Vice President of Blackbird Technologies, a technology solutions provider based in the Washington DC area. Douglas S. Source(s): 1996 AFIO list Harvard and Columbia graduate. Radio news writer and editor with Voice of America in London and New York 1941-1950. With the CIA in Greece 1950-1953. CIA station chief Vientiane, Laos, Washington Post, 'Douglas Blaufarb; CIA Operations Officer, Author': "As station chief in Laos, Mr. Blaufarb managed a so-called secret army of native tribesmen, including the Hmong, who fought the North Vietnamese in the mountains of northern Laos. For his work in these operations, he received the CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit. He began his intelligence career in Greece in the early 1950s, when he helped establish and manage radio facilities for a U.S.- and British- supported guerrilla action in Blaufarbs's tour in Greece ended, and he was sent on other missions around the world, serving in Saigon, Singapore and Vientiane, as well as at CIA headquarters. He retired from the agency in 1970 and spent the next two years doing international security affairs analysis for the Rand Corp.". Wrote the RAND paper 'Organizing and Managing Unconventional War in Laos, Brown, Reese-Source(s): 1996 AFIO list Editor-in-chief International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Bush, George Source(s): 1996 AFIO list; 2001 board members list (honorary co-chair); 2012 list of directors (chair) Family ranked very high in ISGP's Superclass Index. Recruited by Allen Dulles around 1960. Bush allowed his Zapata oil company to serve as a CIA front since the 1960s. May have played a minor role in the JFK assassination. CIA director 1976-1977. Close associate of Ted Shackley and Frank Carlucci since the 1960s. Linked to Shackley's drug trafficking business via the BBRDW (the Nugan Hand Bank successor) and his reported activities as U.S. vice president. Named as a child abuser by Paul Bonacci, who named two other boys who could confirm this. Vice president under Reagan and U.S. Carlucci's Carlyle Group in the 1990s and early 2000s. Met with Osama bin Laden's half brother on the morning of 9/11, together with Carlucci and Baker, with whom he ran the Carlyle Group. Carlucci, Frankb. Source(s): 2001 board members list (honorary director); 2012 list of directors (honorary director) Ranked very high in ISGP's Superclass Index. Roommate of Donald Rumsfeld at Princeton and Rumsfeld's political mentor in the 1970s. Foreign Service officer who moonlighted as a CIA officer. Former deputy director of the CIA, national security advisor and defense secretary. Former long- time chairman of the Carlyle Group. Deeply involved in the old CIA-Saudi Safari Club network with friends as Richard Helms, Ted Shackley and George H. W. More detailed bio: Roommate of Donald Rumsfeld at Princeton and his political mentor in the 1970s. Foreign service officer 1956-1969 and suspected of involvement in the CIA-assisted assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961. Ambassador to Portugal 1974-1978 where, in 1974, on orders of Henry Kissinger, he gave the go-ahead Honorary chair Honorary director to Cercle visitor General Antonio de Spinola for a right-wing counter-coup. Deputy director CIA 1978-1981. Close associate of questionable CIA officer Ted Shackley in this period, as well as former CIA director George H. W. Bush. Reportedly this group used Bush to take over the White House under Reagan. Deputy secretary of defense 1981-1983. Fred Ikle, founder of the Special Operations Policy Advisory Group (SOPAG) in 1983, worked under him as under secretary of defense for policy 1981-1988. SOPAG board members included men tied to illegal arms and drug trafficking. SOPAG member General Richard Stilwell, deputy under secretary for policy 1981- 1985, worked immediately under Ikle. Stilwell created the ISA special operations group in 1981. In a 1982 memo to Stilwell, Carlucci said about ISA: "we seem to have created our own CIA ... uncoordinated and uncontrolled." ISA eventually became part of JSOC. Richard Perle, who had come from Senator Henry Jackson's office, a close CIA ally, also worked immediately under Ikle and Carlucci as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy 1981-1987. Ikle, Perle, an assistant of Perle, and Stilwell all visited Le Cercle in the 1980s, which was increasingly being ran by Ted Shackley. President, chairman and CEO Sears World Trade 1983-1986, part of Sears, Roebuck & Co., a major financier of the American Security Council. Here he hired as a consultant Ted Shackley-associate Erich von Marbod, who, as Defense Security Assistance Administration manager 1978- 1981, had been pushing arms shipments to the Shah's Iran. Chairman security oversight committee Wackenhut 1983- December 1986. National security advisor 1986-1987. Secretary of defense 1987-1989. Vice chairman Carlyle Group chairman emeritus 2003-2005. James Banker and George H. W. Bush joined Carlyle in the 1990s as partners. Trustee Rand Corporation since 1989 (elected trustee emeritus in 2008 in order to "retain [his] counsel and active involvement") and in 1994 founding advisory board chairman RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy. Director Neurogen Corp. since 1989, joined by Suzanne Woolsey in 1998 (when Carlucci was chairman until 2004). Director General Dynamics 1991- 1997. Director of United Defense Industrie, United States Marine Repair, Ashland, Inc., Kaman Corporation, Quaker Oats Company, SunResorts, Texas Biotechnology Corp., and Pharmacia Corporation, G2 Satellite Solutions, Nortel Networks (chairman advisory board). Honorary directors AFIO anno 2001: George Bush, Frank Carlucci, Richard Helms, Bobby Ray Inman, William Webster. Woolsey joined in 2002. Michael Hayden joined in later years. Ted Shackley was the most prominent AFIO leader until his death in 2002. Co-founder and advisory board chairman of the secretive Frontier Group, founded around 2005, together with Norman Augustine (former chairman and CEO Lockheed Martin; Homeland Security), Sanford McDonnell (chairman and CEO McDonnell Douglas), managing director David Robb (Carlyle), Raymond A. Whiteman (Carlyle) and Danny Pang (an embezzler, wife beater and suspected murderer who later committed suicide). Advisory council Eurasia Foundation, together with Madeleine Albright, Maurice Tempelsman and James Baker. Together with Rockefeller men John Whitehead and John Brademas, a senior advisor to Council for a Community of Democracies, founded in 2000 by Madeleine Albright. Advisory board CSIS, with Madeleine Albright, James Baker, and with Kissinger, Brzezinski, Greenberg and formerly James Woolsey among the trustees. Director National Endowment for Democracy and Alliance for a New Kosovo. His wife was a trustee of the Jamestown Foundation, where Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dick Cheney and James Woolsey could also be found at different times. Director Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba since 1998, together with David Rockefeller, John Whitehead, Paul Volcker, James Schlesinger, General Jack Sheehan of Bechtel and director Oliver Stone. Chairman Emeritus of the US-Taiwan Business Council. Board member Drug Policy Alliance, which opposes the historical War on Drugs policies, together with George Soros, George Shultz and Paul Volcker. Director Middle East Policy Council, headed for many years by Cercle visitor Chas Freeman. Anno 2012: