John E. McLaughlin

John E. McLaughlin
Born	John Edward McLaughlin June 15, 1942 McKeesport, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	Wittenberg University, University of Pennsylvania, SAIS
Member of	Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations/Members 2
Former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and acting Director of Central Intelligence  Senior Fellow In office 2020 - Present Employer Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Former acting Director of Central Intelligence  Acting Director of Central Intelligence In office July 12, 2004 - September 24, 2004 Preceded by George Tenet Succeeded by Porter Goss  Deputy Director of Central Intelligence In office October 19, 2000 - November 12, 2004 Preceded by John A. Gordon

John E. McLaughlin is a former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and acting Director of Central Intelligence.

Career

In 1966 he finished a master of arts degree in international relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. After graduating from SAIS, he worked as a U.S. Army officer from 1966 to 1969, including in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969.

McLaughlin's CIA career officially lasted more than 30 years, starting in 1972 with a focus on European, Russian, and Eurasian issues at the Directorate of Intelligence. From 1984 to 1985, he did a rotational tour at the State Department in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. He returned to CIA and worked as Deputy Director and Director of the Office of European Analysis from 1985 to 1989 during the period marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Four months after the break-up of the Soviet Union, he became Director of Slavic and Eurasian Analysis, from 1989 to 1995. He was Deputy Director for Intelligence, Vice Chairman for Estimates of the National Intelligence Council, and Acting Chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 1995 to 1997; and Deputy Director for Intelligence from 1997 to 2000.

While Deputy Director for Intelligence from 1997 to 2000, he created the Senior Analytic Service, a career track that enables CIA analysts to rise to senior rank without working in management. He also founded the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, an institution teaching the history, mission, and skills of the analytic profession to new CIA employees.

President Bill Clinton designated McLaughlin as the Acting Deputy Director of Central Intelligence on June 28, 2000 and later nominated him for the position. McLaughlin was unanimously confirmed as the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence by the Senate on October 18, 2000. Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet swore in McLaughlin as the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence on October 19, 2000.

After Tenet's resignation on June 3, 2004, the Bush Administration announced that McLaughlin would work as Acting Director after Tenet's departure on July 11, 2004. McLaughlin himself stepped down as Acting Director on September 24, 2004, after Porter J. Goss was confirmed by the Senate to be the new director. He then returned to his position as Deputy Director, and announced his retirement on November 12, 2004.

After official CIA career

As of 2020, McLaughlin works as a Senior Fellow and Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. He also was on the Guiding Coalition of the Project on National Security Reform. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Diplomacy, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Chairman of the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation. He also was on the Board of the OSS Society, CIA’s External Advisory Board, and the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Advisory Board. He is a Board of Trustees member at the Aerospace Corporation and the Noblis Corporation.

We don’t blow up civilian airliners

On January 8, 2010, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair announced that he had appointed McLaughlin to head a group of experts to investigate the December 2009 bombing attempt by alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253, and the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting, carried out by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan. The group was tasked with making proposals to remedy weaknesses in intelligence systems and procedures that the incidents (ie a whitewash).

On 11 February 2018, Ludwig De Braeckeleer published on his Intel Today website an article entitled "One Year Ago — Former CIA Director John McLaughlin Tells a Whopper: 'We don’t blow up civilian airliners…'”

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Munich Security Conference/2014	31 January 2014	2 February 2014	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/2016	12 February 2016	14 February 2016	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/2020	14 February 2020	16 February 2020	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."
Munich Security Conference/2024	16 February 2024	18 February 2024	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects

Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.

References

This page imported content from Wikipedia on 09.09.2022.
Wikipedia is not affiliated with Wikispooks.   Original page source here