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John E. McLaughlin
John E. McLaughlin was sworn in as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence on 19 October 2000. Previously he served as Deputy Director for Intelligence, Vice Chairman for Estimates and as Acting Chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
Mr. McLaughlin came to the CIA in 1972, and worked in the early part of his career on various European, Russian, and Eurasian issues in the Directorate of Intelligence. In 1984-85, he served a rotational tour at State Department in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, where he was responsible for following European relations with the Middle East, Central America, and Africa. In September 1985, he became the Deputy Director of the Office of European Analysis, and in April 1989, Mr. McLaughlin was appointed the Director of European Analysis.
Three months after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Mr. McLaughlin was appointed the Director of Slavic and Eurasian Analysis. He held this position until mid-1995, concentrating on political, economic, and military issues in Russia and the 14 other new states that emerged from the USSR. During this period, he represented the Intelligence Community on numerous diplomatic delegations visiting Russia and the other newly- independent states.
During his tenure as Deputy Director for Intelligence from July 1997 to July 2000, Mr. McLaughlin was responsible for the analysis of political, economic, and military events worldwide. During this period, he created the Senior Analytic Service, a CIA career track that enables analysts to rise to very senior rank without branching out into management. He also founded The Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, an institution dedicated to teaching the history, mission, and essential skills of the analytic profession to new CIA employees.
Mr. McLaughlin received his BA from Wittenberg University in 1964 and his MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1966, with a specialty in European Affairs. During this period, he spent a year on Capitol Hill as a Staff Assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania. Mr. McLaughlin spent one year of his Master’s program studying at the SAIS Center in Bologna, Italy, and did additional graduate work in comparative politics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. From 1966 to 1969, Mr. McLaughlin served in the US Army, graduating from the Infantry Officer Candidate School. He served a tour in South East Asia from 1968 to 1969. Source: Central Intelligene Agency
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Just Security
April 6, 2018
noted on page 46 of the report, senior CIA official John McLaughlin recounted a Bolton effort to get a National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for Latin America transferred. McLaughlin refused, telling the committee that: It's perfectly all right for a policymaker to express disagreement with NIO or an analyst, and it's ...
NBCNews.com
April 5, 2018
Earlier this week, former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin told NBC News that sanctions "on Putin's inner circle, the dozen or so wealthy oligarchs who park money and real estate in the West," would hurt Russia more than the just-announced expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats.
OZY
March 30, 2018
OZY senior columnist John McLaughlin teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and was deputy director and acting director of the CIA from 2000 to 2004. Follow him on Twitter: @jmclaughlinSAIS. Seven years into the most violent conflict sparked by 2011's so-called Arab ...
Truthdig
March 17, 2018
The network's reliance on former deputy director of the CIA John McLaughlin is an excellent example of the skewed and tailored information that it offers to viewers on matters dealing with CIA. McLaughlin, a former colleague of mine at the CIA who I remember as an amateur magician, regularly pulls the ...
euronews
March 15, 2018
"As Secretary of State, Pompeo is likely to be more in line with the president's position than was Tillerson," said former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin. "For example, the idea that the other signatories should work to toughen the [nuclear] deal in order to keep us in. That will be a hard thing to achieve ...
New Republic
March 15, 2018
John McLaughlin, CIA's deputy director during the first years of the George W. Bush administration, complained on Twitter about the partisan nature of the ... In 2003, after Republicans regained the majority in the Senate, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Pat Roberts agreed with the CIA to shut down ...
NBCNews.com
March 13, 2018
As former top CIA official John McLaughlin, an MSNBC national security analyst, tweeted last night: “As a subject or observer of Cong oversight of intell for 40 years, I've never seen a party drive a stake thru the process as House Reps just did. It depends on a bi-partisan approach that at least gives the ...
NPR
March 13, 2018
John McLaughlin, a former acting director of the CIA, talks about the Rex Tillerson shakeup and about the president's choice to replace Mike Pompeo at the CIA: deputy director Gina Haspel. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; Email. Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast. Listen on NPR One · Apple Podcasts ...
The Hill (blog)
March 13, 2018
Former CIA Director John McLaughlin ripped Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee after the committee announced it was ending its probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia's election meddling. "As a subject or observer of Cong oversight of intel for 40 years, I've never ...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 13, 2018
Haspel was simply following orders, Sipher said. “It isn't as if she had chosen to do that because she believed in torture,” he said. Because she is a seasoned veteran of the agency, Haspel's nomination is a “heartening development” for the agency, a former acting CIA director, John McLaughlin, said in an ...
OZY
February 20, 2018
OZY Senior Columnist John McLaughlin teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and was deputy director and acting director of the CIA from 2000 to 2004. Follow him on Twitter: @jmclaughlinSAIS. The last several weeks have seen some of the worst and best examples of ...
NPR
February 1, 2018
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with John McLaughlin, former Deputy Director, and former Acting Director of the CIA about implications of the ... After some abuses had been uncovered by the CIA, the FBI, the Watergate, the idea here was that the Congress would get every bit of intelligence that the ...
Polygraph.info
December 31, 1999
Commenting on the imposed sanctions, former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin said the sanctions “on Putin's inner circle, the dozen or so wealthy oligarchs who park money and real estate in the West” would be more costly for Russia compared to the expulsion of diplomats. Emergency personnel ...
CBS News
December 31, 1999
Eight former heads or acting heads of the CIA who served in Republican and Democrat administrations – including John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Morell, Gen. Michael Hayden, George Tenet, Porter Goss and John McLaughlin – signed the letter, as did three former directors of national intelligence ...
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
"This may put a temporary dent in their capability," said former acting CIA Director John McLaughlin, now an NBC News analyst, "but Russia is a national security state that puts great emphasis on espionage and deals with or brooks no public controversy about it. They will replace their losses, and we also ...
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
Former deputy and acting CIA director John McLaughlin said on MSNBC earlier Tuesday that the reported visit highlights China's nervousness about talks between South and North Korea, and not wanting to be left on the sidelines. "Anytime the North and South are getting together, it makes Beijing nervous ...
OZY
December 31, 1999
OZY senior columnist John McLaughlin teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and was deputy director and acting director of the CIA from 2000 to 2004. Follow him on Twitter: @jmclaughlinSAIS. The North Korean offer of talks possibly leading to denuclearization of the ...
OZY
December 31, 1999
... and dozens of other countries joined the United Kingdom in expelling more than 100 Russian diplomats, in the wake of the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal. To better understand the ramifications of that decision, we turn to former CIA director and OZY senior columnist John McLaughlin.
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