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Contributors
MGen. Edward B. Atkeson
(USA,
Ret.) was National Intelligence Officer for General Purpose Forces in 1984,
when his article was published. He has served in various military think tanks
since then and published several books and scores of articles on military
issues.
Bob
Bergin is a former U.S. Foreign Service
officer who writes about the history of aviation and OSS
operations in Southeast Asia and China. His upcoming novel, Spies
in the Garden, is set in Dai Li’s China in the early days of World
War II.
Michael
Richard Danielle Foot is an eminent British
historian and author of numerous works on British military and intelligence
history.
Roger
Z. George is a senior analyst with the Product
Evaluation Staff of the Directorate of Intelligence of the CIA. He was a
National Intelligence Officer for Europe in the National Intelligence Council
and has taught at the National
Defense University.
Hayden
B. Peake is the curator of the CIA Historical
Intelligence Collection. He served in the Directorate of Science and Technology
and the Directorate of Operations.
Miron
Varouhakis was a foreign correspondent with the
Associated Press during 2002–2005. He is a doctoral candidate in the Media and
Information Studies Ph.D. program at Michigan
State University.
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