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William J. Daugherty
Area of expertise: Foreign Policy / Intelligence / U.S. Government
William J. Daugherty was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Following high school at the
Oklahoma Military Academy, he served eight years in the United States Marine
Corps, in both enlisted and officer ranks, earned his wings as a Naval Flight
Officer, and flew one combat tour in Vietnam with a Marine fighter-attack squadron
while deployed on the aircraft carrier USS America. During his first tour with
the C.I.A in Iran, Daugherty was held hostage for 444 days along with fifty-one
other Americans.
After leaving the Marine Corps in 1974, he earned a BA in Social Science from
the University of California-Irvine and a PhD in Government from the Claremont
Graduate School, followed by nearly eighteen years of service with the Central
Intelligence Agency as an operations and staff officer. In 1996 he joined the
faculty of Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, where he
lives with his wife Susan and the family dogs Hunter and Emma.
Daugherty is the author of:
Executive
Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency
Published 2004 by The University Press of Kentucky
Media contact: Leila Salisbury
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Biography of William J. Daugherty
Former CIA Senior Officer Favors Cabinet-level Intelligence Position and New Homeland Security Investigative Agency
Former CIA Senior Officer Assesses Clinton's Response to Terrorism Threat
Iraq Occupation Marred by Bush Team's Poor Planning, Says Former CIA Senior Officer
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