Speaker Series
Presented by Brian Latell, PhD
Dr. Latell teaches at the School of Foreign Service
at Georgetown University. He has been an adjunct
faculty member there since 1978 and offers courses
on Cuba, Latin
America, US-Latin American relations, and the Cuban
Missile Crisis.
He is also a Senior Associate in the Americas Program
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in
Washington.
Dr. Latell served as National Intelligence Officer for
Latin America from 1990 to 1994. His work as a Latin America
and Caribbean analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency
and the National Intelligence Council began in the 1960s.
He also served as a US Air Force intelligence officer.
His last government position (1994-98) was as Director
of the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence where he
was concurrently the Chairman of the Editorial Board of
Studies in Intelligence, the journal of the intelligence
profession. He retired from government service in 1998.
Dr. Latell has published extensively on Cuba, Mexico,
other Latin America subjects and on foreign intelligence
issues. He co-edited Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona
Spy Satellites (Smithsonian Press, 1998).
He was awarded the CIA’s Distinguished Intelligence
Medal in 1998. He is also the recipient of the Helene M.
Boatner Award and Georgetown University’s Silver
Vicennial Medal. He serves on the board of directors of
the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
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