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WHOSWHO WHO'S WHO ON THE WHITE HOUSE E-MAIL The "Who's Who" section of the printed book contains an overview of the highest-ranking users of the White House e-mail, including biographies of each of the National Security Advisers to President Reagan whose collective tenure covers the period of this book. Listed below in alphabetical order are brief biographies of the National Security Council staff who reported to William Clark, Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter, Frank Carlucci and Colin Powell, and who wrote and received the e-mail contained in the book and on this disk. Burghardt, Raymond F. - Joined the NSC in 1984 as Director of Latin American Affairs after 15 years in the Foreign Service, where he had held such posts as political officer in Guatemala and the Chief of Political Section in the U.S. Embassy in Honduras. In 1985, he became Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director of Latin American Affairs, working closely with Oliver North on Central American issues. After Frank Carlucci's appointment as National Security Adviser in December 1986, Burghardt returned to the State Department. Cannistraro, Vincent - A career CIA officer who had served in various covert positions in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Venezuela and in senior jobs at Langley, he came to the NSC as Director of Intelligence in December 1984, and worked with Oliver North on several contra projects during their tenure at the NSC. Childress, Richard T. - A career Army officer and Asia specialist, Lieutenant Colonel Childress came to the NSC in 1983 in the Office of Defense Policy, moved up to Director in the Political-Military Affairs Directorate in 1985-86, and as Director of the NSC's Office of Asian Affairs in 1987-89. Among other issues, he worked on the departure of Marcos from the Philippines and the controversy over POW-MIAs from the Vietnam War. Cobb, Tyrus W. - A West Point graduate, he served as Deputy Director and then Director of the European and Soviet Affairs Directorate at the NSC from 1983-88. Cockell, William A. - From 1986-89, he worked in the NSC's Defense Policy Directorate as Deputy Assistant to the President (one of the top seven NSC staff under Poindexter) and then as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director. Covey, James P. "Jock" - A career State Department official, he served as Special Assistant to the President and the Senior Director of the NSC office of Near East and South Asian Affairs from 1985-86. He returned to State in February 1986, serving as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt (1986 to 1989) and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (1990 to 1992). Coy, Craig P. - A Lieutenant Commander in the Coast Guard, Harvard M.B.A., and White House Fellow who had served on the staff of the Vice-President's Task Force on terrorism in 1985, he joined the NSC as a Deputy Director for Political-Military Affairs in Oliver North's shop in early 1986. After Iran-contra, in February 1987, he became Attorney General Edwin Meese's assistant at the National Drug Policy Board. deGraffenreid, Kenneth E. - A former Navy pilot, he served as a professional staff member on the Senate Intelligence Committee in the late 1970s, before becoming part of the Reagan transition team in 1980. In 1981, he became a professional staff member of the NSC in the Intelligence Directorate, where he served as Senior Director of Intelligence Programs, and from 1984-87 as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Dix, Mary - From 1985 to 1988, she served as Administrative Officer at the NSC. Donley, Michael B. - From 1985-88, he served as a Director of the Defense Programs and Arms Control Directorate of the NSC, and in 1989 as Deputy Executive Secretary. Earl, Robert L. - A Naval Academy graduate and Rhodes Scholar who rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Marines, Earl came to the NSC in spring 1986 from the staff of the Vice-President's Task Force on terrorism, and joined Oliver North's office as a Deputy Director of the Political-Military Affairs Directorate. Ermarth, Fritz W. - A Soviet specialist at the CIA and the Rand Corporation, he served at the NSC during 1987-89 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the European & Soviet Affairs Directorate. Fortier, Alison B. - Widow of Donald Fortier, she served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the NSC's Legislative Affairs Directorate in 1987-88. Fortier, Donald R. - A "Scoop Jackson" Democrat with Capitol Hill experience and a master's degree under Albert Wohlstetter at Chicago, he came to the NSC in 1982 after a stint on the Policy Planning staff at the State Department under Alexander Haig. As Senior Director of the Political-Military Affairs Directorate and, after December 1985, as Deputy National Security Adviser to Poindexter, he directly supervised Oliver North. He left the NSC on medical leave in spring 1986 and died of cancer in August. Green, Grant S. - A retired Army general, he came to the NSC in 1987 as part of Carlucci's housecleaning, and served as Deputy Assistant to the President, Executive Secretary, and Legal Counsel to the NSC. Hall, Fawn - Oliver North's executive secretary and daughter of McFarlane's long-time assistant, she participated in North's document destruction and alteration in November 1986 to cover up the Iran-contra operations, but received immunity from prosecution for her testimony. Hall, Wilma - A career White House secretary who had started with MacGeorge Bundy in the Kennedy administration and served almost every National Security Adviser since, she joined McFarlane at the State Department in 1981 and came back to the NSC with him in 1982. Keel, Alton G., Jr. - A former Air Force officer with a Ph.D. in engineering, he succeeded Fortier as Poindexter's Deputy National Security Adviser in September 1986. Previously, he had served on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, and as Executive Director of the Presidential commission investigating the Challenger tragedy. After the Carlucci housecleaning in the wake of Iran-contra, Keel was appointed Ambassador and U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in 1987. Lehman, Ronald F. - He joined the NSC in 1983, after stints as a staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee and as Deputy Assistant Secretary (under Richard Perle) for Strategic Forces Policy at the Department of Defense. At the NSC, he served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Defense Programs and Arms Control. He left this position in 1986 to become Chief U.S. Negotiator for Strategic Nuclear Arms, Nuclear and Space Talks with the Soviet Union. He returned to the Department of Defense in 1988 as Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs. Linhard, Robert E. - A career Air Force officer (with rank of Colonel), he came to the NSC staff in 1981, where he served as Director of Defense Programs until 1986, when he won promotion to Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director of Defense Programs and Arms Control. He returned to the Air Force after his NSC service and subsequently rose to Major General in charge of the Strategic Air Command. Mahley, Donald A. - From 1984-89, he served as Deputy Director and then Director of the Defense Programs and Arms Control Directorate at the NSC. He continued at the NSC in the Bush administration. Major, David G. - A career FBI agent, he served as Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence in the Intelligence Programs Directorate, NSC, in 1985-88. Martin, William F. - An energy specialist who served in the NSC's Planning & Evaluation Directorate and International Economic Affairs Directorate in 1982-84, he succeeded Robert Kimmitt as the NSC Executive Secretary and Special Assistant to the President for Coordination in January 1985. Subsequently, he served as Deputy Secretary of Energy. Matlock, Jack F. Jr. - A career Foreign Service Officer, he replaced Richard Pipes as the NSC's Soviet specialist in 1983, and served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council from 1983 to 1986. Previously he had served as U.S. Ambassador to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and as Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute. In 1987, he became U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, where he served until replaced by Robert Strauss during the eventful summer of 1991. McDaniel, Rodney B. - After 29 years in the Navy, during which time he commanded the USS Oklahoma City and was the Chief of Staff to the Commander of the Seventh Fleet, in 1985 McDaniel became the Senior Director of the NSC Crisis Management Center, the heart of the NSC's computerization effort. In February 1986 he replaced William Martin as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Executive Secretary of the NSC. A leading member of Poindexter's "Navy mafia," his NSC career was one of Iran-contra's casualties in Carlucci's early 1987 housecleaning. Menan, Nancy V. - NSC declassification officer in the 1980's and subsequently Senior Director in the NSC's Office of Information Policy. Menges, Constantine C. - An academic polemicist who is now on the faculty at The George Washington University, he was recruited to join the Reagan administration by CIA director William Casey, first as the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Latin America in 1981-83, and then at the NSC as the Senior Director for Latin American Affairs in 1983-85. After becoming a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Director of International Communications and Information in 1985, he was fired by Poindexter in May 1986 for opposing the Reagan administration's compromises with Congress on the $100 million contra aid bill. Miller, Johnathan S. - A former "Tour Director" for the Reagan presidential campaign in 1980 and Peace Corps director for Botswana in 1983, Miller joined the NSC in 1985 as a Senior Director for Coordination (ie. scheduling and handling foreign trips and visitors), after having served as the State Department's Deputy Coordinator for Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean from late 1983 to 1985. In 1986 he left the NSC to become Deputy Assistant to the President in the Office of Administration, and resigned from that position in May 1987 when the Congressional Iran-contra hearings brought up his minor role in handling some of Oliver North's travelers' checks. North, Oliver L. - A Naval Academy graduate and Vietnam veteran who rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps, he joined the NSC staff in 1981 as a military detailee working in the Defense Policy Directorate. After fellow Marine Robert McFarlane came to the NSC with Clark in 1982, North began to receive plum assignments, working on terrorism issues, as NSC liaison to the Kissinger Commission on Central America, and ultimately, the Nicaraguan contra account. As Deputy Director for Political-Military Affairs under McFarlane and then Poindexter, North simultaneously managed covert contra resupply operations in Central America and the arms-for-hostages initiative with Iran, working through the "Enterprise" in which North enlisted retired general Richard Secord and Iranian expatriate Albert Hakim to set up a network of shell corporations, offshore bank accounts, arms procurement, air and shipping systems and an airlift capability. North left the NSC on November 25, 1986 as the Iran-contra scandal broke, was indicted on Iran-contra-related charges in March 1988, found guilty on three felony counts on May 4, 1989, and was sentenced to a suspended three-year prison term, two years probation, 1,200 hours of community service and a fine of $150,000. This conviction was appealed by North and his lawyers, and on July 20, 1990 a three-judge panel vacated all counts. Since leaving the NSC and retiring from the Marines, North has written two books and started a business called Guardian Technologies which manufactures bullet proof vests; most recently, he unsuccessfully ran as a Republican from Virginia for U.S. Senate, losing to incumbent Charles Robb in the 1994 general election. Pearson, W. Robert - As Deputy Executive Secretary and Deputy General Counsel at the NSC in 1986-87, he came to public attention during the Iran-contra affair as the NSC's designated notetaker at the August 6, 1986 briefing of the House Intelligence Committee, in which North lied about his involvement with the contras. Raymond, Walter Jr. - A career psychological operations and propaganda specialist with the Departments of Army, Defense and State and the CIA over a period of 30 years, he came to the NSC staff from CIA in 1982 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the NSC's International Communications and Information Directorate. His task in this post was to build a "public diplomacy" capability within the Executive Branch to influence and manipulate public opinion on such issues as Central America and South Africa, among others. Reger, Brenda S. - Director of the NSC's Freedom of Information office from 1980 to 1983, and then NSC Senior Director of the Office of Information Policy and Security Review from 1983 to 1988, she was responsible for declassifying documents and materials in response to Congressional and outside inquiries, including the Iran-contra investigations that ultimately hastened her retirement. Rodman, Peter W. -- An aide to Henry Kissinger ever since undergraduate days at Harvard (which were followed by Oxford and law school), Rodman wrote speeches for Kissinger at the NSC in the early 1970's, assisted on Kissinger's memoirs, served as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department under George Shultz in the 1980's, and came to the NSC in 1986 as a Special Assistant to the President and Deputy to Poindexter for Foreign Policy (as opposed to Defense Policy etc.). He continued at the NSC as NSC Counselor under Carlucci and Powell, as well as in the Bush administration. Ross, Dennis B. -- A University of California-Berkeley political scientist who specialized in U.S.-Soviet relations and the Middle East, he came from the Pentagon to succeed Jock Covey as Senior Director of Near East & South Asia Affairs Directorate at the NSC in May 1986. Subsequently, he served as head of James Baker's Policy Planning staff at the State Department in the Bush administration, and now works for the Clinton administration as a special envoy for the Middle East peace process. Sable, Ronald K. - A career Air Force officer (retiring with the rank of Colonel), he came to the NSC in 1983 as Director of Legislative Affairs. In 1985-87 he served as Special Assistant to the President and the NSC Senior Director of Legislative Affairs. Sestanovich, Stephen R. - A Harvard Ph.D. and veteran of the State Department's Policy Planning staff as well as Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's staff, he served at the NSC from 1984-87 principally as a Director in the Policy Development Directorate. He now serves as Vice President for Russian and Eurasian Affairs of the Carnegie Endowment. Small, Karna - A Reagan White House veteran, she served as Deputy Press Secretary (to Larry Speakes) and Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Media Relations and Planning before coming to the NSC in 1984, as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Public Affairs. She left the NSC in 1987. Stark, James R. - A Navy captain, Stark served as a Director of the NSC's Political-Military Affairs Directorate in 1985-86, working on international narcotics and assorted counter-terrorism issues. Steiner, Steven E. - A career Foreign Service Officer, he came to the NSC in 1985 and stayed through 1989, serving variously as a Director of the Offices of International Communications and Information, Defense Programs, Arms Control, and Defense Policy. Stevens, Paul Schott - A Washington lawyer, he became Legal Adviser on the National Security Council staff in 1987 as part of Carlucci's housecleaning. Previously, he had served as Deputy Director and General Counsel of the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management. Later in 1987, he succeeded Grant Green as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Executive Secretary of the NSC. Stults, Mary Kay - She served as Executive Assistant and Administrative Assistant to the NSC's Executive Secretary in 1987-89. Tahir-Kheli, Shirin R. - An India-Pakistan specialist, she served from 1986-89 as a Director in the Political-Military Affairs Directorate and in the Near East and South Asia Affairs Directorate of the NSC. Teicher, Howard J. - A Boston University Phi Beta Kappa and Johns Hopkins M.A., he worked at the State Department during graduate school and served as Robert McFarlane's staff assistant at State in 1981. He came with McFarlane to the NSC in early 1982, and worked as a junior Director of the NSC Near East and South Asia directorate from 1982 to 1986, when he won promotion to Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Political-Military Affairs. He traveled with North and McFarlane to Tehran in May 1986, and lost his NSC job in the fallout from the Iran-contra scandal in February 1987. Thompson, Paul B. - A career Navy officer and lawyer with the rank of Commander, he joined the NSC in June 1983 as Deputy Director of Legislative and Legal Affairs. He subsequently served as Deputy NSC Executive Secretary, as Military Assistant to McFarlane and Poindexter, and as Staff Legal Counsel, performing general troubleshooting especially under Poindexter. After Iran-contra, he stayed at the NSC as Military Assistant to Carlucci, but without his legal counsel portfolio. Tillman, Jacqueline - Former aide to President Reagan's Ambassador to the United Nations, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, she joined the NSC staff in 1984 as Deputy Director for Latin America, and was promoted to Director for Latin America in 1987. While at the NSC, she also staffed with Oliver North the Kissinger Commission on Central America. Tobey, William H. - A Kennedy School graduate and member of the "sdi mafia" at the NSC, he served as Deputy Director in the Arms Control Directorate in 1987-89, and stayed on in the Bush administration as a Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control. Van Eron, George - A retired non-commissioned officer and long-time NSC administrative staffer, he rose to become Director of the NSC Secretariat in the 1980s.

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