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58th Program Year - Tenth Meeting

June 19, 2007

Tanoan Country Club

The Decline and Fall of the CIA

Melvin A. Goodman

Melvin Goodman is a senior fellow and director of the National Security Program at the Center for International Policy. He is a former professor of International Security Studies and chairman of the International Relations Department at the National War College. Mr. Goodman was division chief and senior analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency from 1966 to 1990. He was a senior analyst at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, State Department from 1974 to 1976, and was an intelligence adviser to the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks in Vienna and Washington. He is co-author of The Wars of Edvard Shevardnadze (2nd edition, 2001), The Phantom Defence, America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion (2001), and Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives are Putting the World at Risk (2004).