John McLaughlin

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence
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John McLaughlin is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. A former deputy director for intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, he is an expert in counterterrorism, intelligence policy and proliferation issues.

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Expertise

  • Counterterrorism
  • intelligence policy
  • proliferation

Experience

Current Positions

  • Senior Fellow in the Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Past Positions

  • Acting Director of Central Intelligence (July –September 2004)
  • Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (2000-2004)
  • Deputy Director for Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency (1997-2000)
  • Vice Chairman for Estimates and Acting Chairman of the National Intelligence Council
  • Director of Slavic and Eurasian Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Director of the Office of European Analysis, Directorate of Intelligence
  • Bureau of European and Soviet Affairs, Department of State

Education

  • M.A., School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1966
  • B.A., Wittenberg University, 1964

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