Stanley Moskowitz
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Stanley M. Moskowitz was a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency
.
Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University
. While attending graduate school at Duke University
, he left to join the CIA in 1962, where he worked for over four decades.
In the 1980s, he was a national intelligence officer for Russia
and Eastern Europe
and became congressional liaison, serving under two CIA directors.
From 1995-1999, he was the station chief in Israel, where he tried with some success to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians. His term ended soon after the Benjamin Netanyahu
government became dissatisfied with his role and an Israeli paper outed his identity as CIA station chief.
He was briefly the CIA's senior representative to the Council on Foreign Relations
in New York. He received two Presidential Distinguished Officer Awards, the Director's Medal, the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the Intelligence Community Medal of Merit.
After retiring in 2005, he continued as a consultant and CIA's representative to the Interagency Working Group on Nazi War Crimes. The team worked to declassify information from the agency's files and as of June 2006 had released 27,000 pages from 174 files, much of it new material.
Former CIA directors Michael V. Hayden and George Tenet
issued statements praising him as "truly exceptional" and "indispensable."
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
.
Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University
Alfred University
Alfred University is a small, comprehensive university in the Village of Alfred in Western New York, USA, an hour and a half south of Rochester and two hours southeast of Buffalo. Alfred has an undergraduate population of around 2,000, and approximately 300 graduate students...
. While attending graduate school at Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, he left to join the CIA in 1962, where he worked for over four decades.
In the 1980s, he was a national intelligence officer for Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
and became congressional liaison, serving under two CIA directors.
From 1995-1999, he was the station chief in Israel, where he tried with some success to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians. His term ended soon after the Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.Netanyahu is the first and, to...
government became dissatisfied with his role and an Israeli paper outed his identity as CIA station chief.
He was briefly the CIA's senior representative to the Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
in New York. He received two Presidential Distinguished Officer Awards, the Director's Medal, the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the Intelligence Community Medal of Merit.
After retiring in 2005, he continued as a consultant and CIA's representative to the Interagency Working Group on Nazi War Crimes. The team worked to declassify information from the agency's files and as of June 2006 had released 27,000 pages from 174 files, much of it new material.
Former CIA directors Michael V. Hayden and George Tenet
George Tenet
George John Tenet was the Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, and is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University....
issued statements praising him as "truly exceptional" and "indispensable."
External links
- Washington Post obituary
- Federation of American Scientists article
- Studies in Intelligence Book Reviewhttps://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol50no3/Uncertain_Shield_7.htm
- Documents: CIA Hid Nazis' Locations Eichmann, Other War Criminals Were Shielded Due To Cold War Security Concerns. Associated Press, June 6, 2006.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/06/world/main1689576.shtml?source=RSS&attr=Politics_1689576