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2006.08.18: August 18, 2006: Headlines: COS - Colombia: COS - Venezuela: Cuba: Intelligence Issues: National Intelligence Agency: National Intelligence Agency Head John Negroponte names Colombia RPCV J. Patrick Maher Mission Manager for Cuba and Venezuela
National Intelligence Agency Head John Negroponte names Colombia RPCV J. Patrick Maher Mission Manager for Cuba and Venezuela
The Director of National Intelligence, John D. Negroponte, announces the establishment of the position of Mission Manager for Cuba and Venezuela. Negroponte appointed J. Patrick Maher, a 32-year veteran intelligence officer, to serve as Acting Mission Manager until a permanent Mission Manager is named. Maher will be responsible for integrating collection and analysis on Cuba and Venezuela across the Intelligence Community, identifying and filling gaps in intelligence, and ensuring the implementation of strategies, among other duties. Mr. Maher was assigned to Colombia for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer (1966-1968).
National Intelligence Agency Head John Negroponte names Colombia RPCV J. Patrick Maher Mission Manager for Cuba and Venezuela
Caption: Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte walks in the hallways of the National Security Agency in suburban Fort Mead, Maryland. President Bush met with NSA employees in January after criticism emerged of his domestic surveillance program. Photo by PAUL J.RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
20511
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ODNI News Release No. 16-06
August 18, 2006
Mission Manager for Cuba and Venezuela Announced
J. Patrick Maher
Acting Mission Manager for Cuba and Venezuela
The Director of National Intelligence, John D. Negroponte, announces the establishment of the position of Mission Manager for Cuba and Venezuela. Negroponte appointed J. Patrick Maher, a 32-year veteran intelligence officer, to serve as Acting Mission Manager until a permanent Mission Manager is named. Maher will be responsible for integrating collection and analysis on Cuba and Venezuela across the Intelligence Community, identifying and filling gaps in intelligence, and ensuring the implementation of strategies, among other duties. Such efforts are critical today, as policymakers have increasingly focused on the challenges that Cuba and Venezuela pose to American foreign policy. In this light, the Mission Manager for Cuba and Venezuela will be responsible for ensuring that policymakers have a full range of timely and accurate intelligence on which to base their decisions. Maher will also continue to serve as the National Intelligence Officer for the Western Hemisphere. Prior to assuming his NIO position in August 2005, Maher was the Deputy Director of the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence?s Office of Policy Support. Maher joined the CIA in 1974 and spent most of his career as a Latin American specialist. His assignments included that of Issue Manager of the Columbia Working Group and Chief of Asian/Latin America Branch?s Middle-Caribbean Division. He received his master?s degree from Georgetown University?s Walsh School of Foreign Service and continued with postgraduate work at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Note: The role of the Mission Manager recommended by the WMD Commission and endorsed by the President is a new and important one. There are now six Mission Managers: one for counterterrorism (the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center), one for counterproliferation (the Director of the National Counterproliferation Center), one for counterintelligence (the Director of the National Counterintelligence Executive), and one each for the countries of Iran and North Korea and one for Cuba and Venezuela. Mission Managers will not directly manage operations or analysis, but will instead lead the Intelligence Community at a strategic level.
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Biography of J. Patrick Maher from the National Intelligence Council Web Site
National Intelligence Council Web Site
Mr. Maher joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1974 with an MSFS from Georgetown University and three additional years in the PhD program at John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His undergraduate degree is from the College of Wooster. Mr. Maher was assigned to Colombia for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer (1966-1968) and returned to that country for a year and a half of field research while at SAIS. He taught briefly at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County before joining the CIA. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
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National Intelligence Officer for the Western Hemisphere
Pat Maher, a 31-year veteran of the CIA, was appointed NIO for the Western Hemisphere in August 2005. Mr. Maher recently completed a 20-month tour as Deputy Director of the DI's Office of Policy Support. Before assuming senior management positions in the DI, Mr. Maher had spent most of his career as a Latin American specialist. His assignments included that of Issue Manager of the Colombia Working Group (2000-2001); Issue Manager for Mexico (1997-1999); and Chief of ALA's Middle America-Caribbean Division (1995-1997). He served in Brazil on a rotational assignment with the Department of State from 1986 through 1988. In addition, Mr. Maher was a Congressional Fellow in 1982-1983, finishing his tour with a stint on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Mr. Maher joined the Agency in 1974 with an MSFS from Georgetown University and three additional years in the PhD program at John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His undergraduate degree is from the College of Wooster. Mr. Maher was assigned to Colombia for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer (1966-1968) and returned to that country for a year and a half of field research while at SAIS. He taught briefly at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County before joining the CIA. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
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