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

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and

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, and is a senior fellow at the

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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; ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and ...

, 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

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. He went on to teach at the

as a professor of international security, from 1986 through 2004. He is currently an adjunct professor at

, and a senior fellow at the

Works

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

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. 2016.

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