This site contains opinion pieces (Opeds) and longer articles written by Haviland Smith, a retired CIA Station Chief, on issues concerning Foreign Policy, the Intelligence Process, Terrorism, the CIA, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Libya, Russia, and the United States. He writes regularly for the Rutland Herald, the Barre Times-Argus, the Herald of Randolph, The Valley News in the Upper Connecticut River Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire, and for the Baltimore Sun.
In addition to other Vermont papers, his Opeds have appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Hartford Courant. He has lectured extensively on the same topics from Texas into Canada and also writes for American Diplomacy, Nieman Watchdog at Harvard, and the Middle East Institute.
Mr. Smith pursued Russian Studies at Dartmouth College and in graduate school at the University of London. Prior to joining the CIA, he served three years in the Army Security Agency and studied Russian at the Army Language School in Monterey, California
During his CIA career, Mr. Smith served in Prague, Berlin, Beirut, Tehran, Washington, and Langley. He focused on the conduct of human intelligence operations against the USSR and her East European satellites and the management of such operations. He also served as Chief of the Counterterrorism Staff and as Executive Assistant in the CIA Director’s office. He was twice awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his operational efforts. He retired from the CIA in 1980 and has lived since then in Vermont.
Please remember that the titles of Oped pieces and other articles are normally written by editors, not by this author!
Write to Haviland Smith at: rural.ruminations@gmail.com
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Rural Ruminations 