Kenneth E. deGraffenreid
Kenneth E. deGraffenreid retired in 2012 from his position as Professor of Intelligence Studies at The Institute of World Politics, where he taught since the graduate school's first summer session in 1992.[1] He is now a professor emeritus at the IWP.[2] Numerous published sources indicate that deGraffenreid has been involved in the highest echelons of the United States Intelligence Community: a 2004 article in The New Yorker mentioned that he was responsible for all Department of Defense "Special Access Programs" (SAPs).[3] He is recognized as a leading authority in intelligence, foreign propaganda, information warfare, and counterintelligence. He was an early pioneer in the academic sub-discipline of intelligence studies which was in its nascency when he began teaching in 1992.
Education
deGraffenreid graduated from
Professional life
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For ten years deGraffenreid served in the
deGraffenreid served as a Special Project Director with the National Strategy Information Center, a public policy institution dedicated to improving educational efforts in the field of national security.
For four years, deGraffenreid served on the professional minority staff of the
deGraffenreid was senior director of Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council from 1981 to 1987. In that capacity he served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs. He also assisted the president's national security advisor in evaluating and coordinating intelligence, counterintelligence, security countermeasures, space policy, arms control, strategic nuclear, and command, control and communication issues coming before the president and the National Security Council.
For three years he was a senior vice president with JAYCOR, a California-based research, development, and systems engineering firm. At the firm's Virginia office he led the Strategic Programs and Analysis Group, a 180-person group working in the areas of intelligence, security, verification,
From 1994 to 1999 deGraffenreid was senior associate and then vice president of National Security Research, Inc., where he was responsible for national-level U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence policies and programs, and security programs for protecting U.S. Government and commercial strategic information and operations.
For two years he was also vice president of policy-analysis firm National Security Concepts based in the Washington, D.C., area. He directed intelligence and defense policy and program analysis in projects ranging from missile defense support to information warfare to specialized security programs.
From 2001 to 2004 deGraffenreid was the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Support in the
He was also a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.
At the Institute of World Politics, he taught a number of courses during his tenure (1992–2012) including: Strategic Information Warfare (which was one of the first unclassified courses to be taught on this subject on any American campus when he first offered it in 1996), American Counterintelligence and Security for the 21st Century, American Intelligence and Protective Security: An Advanced Seminar, Intelligence and Policy, Intelligence Collection, and Introduction to Intelligence. He was also one of the founding faculty members and board members of the institute.[4]
deGraffenreid served on the board of directors of the OPSEC Professionals Society and Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., and on the advisory board for the master's degree in Intelligence offered by the New York Institute of Technology.
He has contributed op-eds to various newspapers including The Washington Post, and chapters to various books, including Intelligence Requirements in the 1990s, and he edited the public version of the
Personal life
A native of the Chicago area, deGraffenreid is the father of two children and lived near Annapolis, Maryland until his retirement move to Maine.
References
- ISBN 0-89526-262-2. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
- ^ "Kenneth deGraffenreid". www.iwp.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^ "The Gray Zone". The New Yorker. 17 May 2004.
- ^ "Kenneth deGraffenreid". www.iwp.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
External links
- The Institute of World Politics, Faculty Profile [1]
- International Assessment and Strategy Center, Scholar Profile [2]
- Appearances on C-SPAN