“Judging Intelligence Success and Failure” – A Presentation by Dr. John A. Kringen, Former Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
November 26, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Falcon Center Conference Rooms. Reception to follow.
Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community are welcome to attend.
Please note that this event is closed to members of the media.
Dr. Kringen is a Research Staff Member with the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia. He recently retired from the Central Intelligence Agency after more than three decades of government service. During 2005-2008 he served as the Director of Intelligence at CIA where he managed and led the activities of several thousand CIA analysts and staff. Prior to becoming Director of Intelligence, he served in a variety of managerial assignments in that Directorate, including as Director of the CIA’s Crime and Narcotics Center. Beyond CIA, he served twice overseas in Europe, most recently as a senior intelligence advisor to United States European Command from July 2008 to August 2011. In the late 1990s, he was head of imagery analysis at the predecessor organization to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1978.
Sponsored by the National Security and Intelligence Program and the Open Source Intelligence Exchange at Fairmont State University
