- Stanley Moskowitz
Stanley M. Moskowitz (c.
1937 -June 29 ,2006 ) was a top official of theCentral Intelligence Agency .Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from
Alfred University . While attending graduate school atDuke 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 andEastern 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 andPalestinians . His term ended soon after theBenjamin Netanyahu regime 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.Current CIA director
Michael V. Hayden and former directorGeorge Tenet issued statements praising him as "truly exceptional" and "indispensable."External links
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063001629.html Washington Post obituary]
* [http://www.fas.org/sgp/bulletin/sec75.html Federation of American Scientists article]
*Studies in Intelligence Book Review [https://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]
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