Stanley M. Moskowitz (c. 1937 – June 29, 2006) was a top official of the

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. Moskowitz was born in New York and graduated from

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. While attending graduate school at

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, 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

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and

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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

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and

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. His term ended soon after the

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government 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

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in New York. He received two Presidential Distinguished Officer Awards, the Director's Medal, the

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, the

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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

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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. Former CIA directors

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and

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issued statements praising him as "truly exceptional" and "indispensable."

External links

Washington Post obituary
*Studies in Intelligence Book Revie

* Documents: CIA Hid Nazis' Locations Eichmann, Other War Criminals Were Shielded Due To Cold War Security Concerns. ''Associated Press'', June 6, 200

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