Melvin Allan "Mel" Goodman is a national security and intelligence expert. He has worked as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the State Department, taught at the National War College and

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, and is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.

Career

Goodman's career in intelligence began in the U.S. Army where he worked as cryptographer. He then worked as an analyst at the

Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...

, from 1966 to 1974. He transferred to the

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in 1974, where he spent the next two years working as a senior analyst. He returned to the Central Intelligence Agency in 1976, and served as the division chief and senior analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs until leaving in 1986. He also served as an intelligence adviser to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He went on to teach at the National War College as a professor of international security, from 1986 through 2004. He is currently an adjunct professor at

, and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.

Works

* * * * * * * ''Whistleblower at the CIA. An Insiders Account of the Politics of Intelligence.''

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. 2016.

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