THIS EVENT IS FULL AND NO WALK INS WILL BE ACCEPTED
Director of National Intelligence, Honorable James R. Clapper, will speak, October 24th, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm in Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School. This session is strictly off the record: nothing said in the meeting can be recorded or publicized outside the session.
ID cards will be checked at the door. Bags will be searched.
Since 2010, Mr. Clapper has led the United States Intelligence Community and served as the principal intelligence advisor to the President. Mr. Clapper began his national service in the military as a rifleman in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and culminated as a lieutenant general in the U.S. Air Force and Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He served two combat tours during the Southeast Asia conflict and flew 73 combat support missions in EC-47s over Laos and Cambodia. His intelligence-related positions over his 32 years in uniform included Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence at U.S. Air Force Headquarters during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm and Director of Intelligence for three war-fighting commands: U.S. Forces Korea, Pacific Command, and Strategic Air Command.
Mr. Clapper returned to the government in September 2001 as the first civilian director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). He served as Director for five years transforming it into the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as it is today. Prior to becoming the Director of National Intelligence, Mr. Clapper served for over three years in two Administrations as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, where he served as the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on intelligence, counterintelligence, and security matters for the Department. In this capacity, he was also dual-hatted as the Director of Defense Intelligence for DNI.
Mr. Clapper is the recipient of numerous US and foreign awards and decorations including three National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medals and two Defense Distinguished Service Medals.
This session is strictly off the record: nothing said in the meeting can be recorded or publicized outside the session.
