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Mark Mansfield
Director, Office of Public Affairs
Mark Mansfield,
who joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1982 and is a career
Agency officer, was named Director of Public Affairs by General Michael
V. Hayden on 24 July 2006.
He
had been assigned since August 2005 to the National Counterterrorism
Center (NCTC) , where he served as Director of Public Affairs.
Before
going to NCTC, Mansfield was CIA's Director of Public Affairs,
appointed by then Acting Director of Central Intelligence John
McLaughlin and serving in that capacity from August 2004 until October
2004. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Director of Public Affairs at
CIA from August 1997 until July 2004.
Mansfield
has held a variety of positions in CIA's Public Affairs Office under
seven Directors of Central Intelligence. He was a speechwriter for
former DCI William Webster (1987-89), a CIA spokesman (1989-92 and
1994-96) and Chief of Media Relations (1997). In 1992-93, he supervised
an analytical branch in the Directorate of Intelligence and in 1993-94
he served as the editor of the Agency's internal newsletter.
He began his career as an editor with what was then the Foreign Broadcast Information Service.
A
native of northern New Jersey, Mansfield received a B.A. in Political
Science from Rutgers College (1980) and an M.S.J. from Columbia
University's Graduate School of Journalism (1982).
He lives in northern Virginia and has a grown daughter.
Posted: Apr 05, 2007 02:06 PM
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