is an international consultant. From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Kerr was the deputy director of Central Intelligence. As such, he had responsibilities in the Intelligence Community and assisted in the direction of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Richard J. Kerr
is an international consultant. From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Kerr was the
deputy director of Central Intelligence. As such, he had responsibilities in the
Intelligence Community and assisted in the direction of the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA).
From September 1991 to November 1991, he served as acting director of Central Intelligence.
From 1986 to 1989, he directed the CIA component that conducts political, military, economic, and social intelligence analysis and produced finished intelligence for U.S. policymakers. In 1986, he became deputy director for intelligence.
In July 1982, the director of Central Intelligence appointed Mr. Kerr associate director for intelligence.
From 1976 to 1982, Mr. Kerr was the director or deputy director of several analytic offices within the Directorate of Intelligence.
In 1976, he was named the deputy director of the office responsible for political analysis worldwide. He was also the director of the Office of East Asian Analysis and the director of the office responsible for producing the daily intelligence products, including briefing books for the president of the United States.
In Cuba during the 1962-1963 missile crisis, he analyzed information on Soviet forces and was the CIA representative to the commander-in-chief, U.S. Pacific Command. He also headed a task force planning for the use of new collection systems. Mr. Kerr also served as the deputy and chairman of the committee responsible for imagery requirements and exploitation and later as the executive officer for the Intelligence Community Staff.
In 1960, Mr. Kerr joined the CIA serving as an intelligence analyst primarily working on issues related to the Soviet Union.
He has received two National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medals for work in the Intelligence Community and two Distinguished Intelligence Medals for work in the CIA. President Bush gave him the Citizen's Medal for his work during Desert Storm.
Mr. Kerr holds a bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of Oregon,
where he also did graduate work.
http://www.mitre.org/about/bot/kerr.html
http://www.mantech.com/about/board.asp
Richard J. Kerr
Member of the President's Commission on Intelligence ReformRichard J. KerrMember of
the President's Commission on Intelligence Reform">
Mr. Kerr has served as a Director of ManTech since 2002. Mr. Kerr served as
Chairman of ManTech's Advisory Board from 1994 to 2002.
Mr. Kerr currently is a member of the President's Commission on Intelligence Reform.
From 1996 to 2001,
Mr. Kerr served as President of the Security Affairs Support Association, an
organization composed of government and industry members
that is focused on national security policy. Prior to that, Mr. Kerr worked at the
Central Intelligence Agency for 32 years,
including serving as Deputy Director for Central Intelligence.
Mr. Kerr formerly served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National
Security Agency
and the Board of Visitors of the Joint Military Intelligence College and is currently
on the advisory boards of the Los Alamos National Laboratory,
the Sandia National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Mr. Kerr was
awarded the Citizens Medal,
the second highest civilian award given by the President of the United States, and
two National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medals
and two Distinguished Intelligence Medals from the Central Intelligence Agency.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=130660&p=irol-govBio&ID=124279
BAE Systems, Inc. Board of Directors
http://www.na.baesystems.com/PressKit/North_America_Overview.pdf
Born: 4-Oct-1935
Birthplace: Fort Smith, AR
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government, Military
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Former CIA head
Former Deputy Director, CIA. Retired in 1992.
University: BA History, University
of Oregon (1959)
CIA Deputy
Director 1989-92
CIA employee
country analyst
Distinguished
Intelligence Medal twice
Risk Factors: Obesity
http://www.nndb.com/people/134/000024062/
Fourth public hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the
United States
Biography of Richard J. Kerr
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing4/witness_kerr.htm
9-11 Commission to Hold Fourth Public Hearing on Intelligence and the War on
Terrorism
"Intelligence and the War on Terrorism"
PANEL: Warning of Transnational Threats
http://www.9-11commission.gov/press/pr_2003-10-07.htm
MITRE - About Us - Board of Trustees - Mr. Richard J. Kerr
http://www.mitre.org/about/bot/kerr.html
MEMBERS OF THE CENTURY FOUNDATION HOMELAND SECURITY PROJECT
http://www.tcf.org/Publications/HomelandSecurity/HSPmembers.pdf
Others said it was possible that Ms. McCarthy - who made a
contribution to Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 - had grown
increasingly disenchanted with the methods adopted by the Bush administration for
handling Qaeda prisoners.
Ms. McCarthy, who began attending law school at night several
years ago and was preparing to retire from the C.I.A., may have felt she had no
alternative but to go to the press.
If in fact Ms. McCarthy was the leaker, Richard J. Kerr, a former
C.I.A. deputy director, said, "I have no idea what her motive was, but there is a lot
of dissension within the agency, and it seems to be a rather unhappy place." Mr. Kerr
called Ms. McCarthy "quite a good, substantive person on the issues I dealt with her
on."
http://biglizards.net/blog/archives/2006/04/st_mary_of_lang.html
Fired CIA Officer Likely Won't Face Charges Over Leak
Former colleagues described her as cautious and respected. "I
thought she was a competent, quiet, good intelligence officer," said Richard J. Kerr,
a former deputy CIA director who worked with McCarthy. "She was certainly someone you
had respect for and saw not as an ideologue or someone who would end up putting
herself in this position."
I'd hate to see what would have happened if she was political.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621945/posts
SUBJECT: DCI/DDCI MEETING WITH GENERAL BRENT SCOWCROFT AND
ROBERT GATES, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, THURSDAY,
24 JANUARY 1991 (THE WHITE HOUSE)
3. CHEMICAL WARHEADS ON SCUDS: DCI REVIEWED OUR ANALYSIS
OF THE EVIDENCE THAT THE IRAQIS HAVE CHEMICAL WARHEADS FOR
THEIR SCUDS. HE INDICATED THERE WERE
SOURCES PLUS OTHER INFORMATION THAT PERSUADED HIM THAT CHEMICAL
WARHEADS SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
RICHARD J. KERR
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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May 20, 1990
With CIA and NSA intelligence reports revealing that Pakistan and India were on the verge of a nuclear exchange, President Bush sends his top nuclear expert, Robert Gates, to Islamabad. Gates warns President Khan and his top general that Pentagon war games have demonstrated that there is no way that Pakistan could win a war with India, and that Pakistan need not expect any help from the US despite the fact that Pakistan had been an ally of the US in the long, supposedly "covert" war in Afghanistan. Gates extracts a promise from the Pakistanis to close down their training camps for Kashmiri insurgents. [Richard J. Kerr, deputy director of the CIA described the crisis as "the most dangerous nuclear situation we have ever faced since I've been in the US government.... far more frightening than the Cuban missile crisis." Why did the public know nothing of this at the time (unlike the hour-by-hour bulletins during the fear-ridden days of the Cuban crisis)?
http://www.janrainwater.com/htdocs/CIA.htm
Responding to a USA Today article asserting that Tenet had ordered investigators
to probe whether the agency missed telltale signs on WMD issues, Tenet said he had
asked a former top CIA official, Richard J. Kerr, to review intelligence on Iraq and
judge it next to what Kay ultimately finds.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9823-2003Dec17?language=printer
The report, from July 2004, is the third of three prepared by a group of intelligence
experts led by Richard J. Kerr, a former deputy director of central
intelligence, to examine the U.S. Intelligence Community's assessments in the months
before the U.S. invasion. The first two reports remain classified despite the fact
that many of their key findings are summarized in the July report and in unclassified
reports produced by the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence and the Commission
on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass
Destruction.
The Kerr report also identifies a number of weaknesses in the Intelligence Community's analytical products, particularly the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraqi weapons programs, which the report says was prepared "under an unusually tight time constraint" and was "the product of three separate drafters, drawing from a mixed bag of analytic product." The October 2002 NIE was at the center of Bush administration claims about Iraq's weapons programs in the prewar period.
.http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/823/kerr-report
http://irrationallyinformed.com//pdfcollection/20040729_Kerr_Report.pdf
THE RETIREMENT OF RICHARD J. KERR -- HON. DAVE MCCURDY (Extension of Remarks -
February 27, 1992)
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_cr/s920227-tribute.htm
A Crack In Cheney's Firewall
The other example of CIA secrecy and obfuscation is the new study on prewar intelligence about Iraq. Although the study appears at first glance to shield the Bush administration from claims it manipulated intelligence to fit its policy on Iraq, it doesn't fully succeed. Released in the CIA journal Studies In Intelligence , the review was completed in July 2004 under the direction of former CIA deputy director Richard J. Kerr. It purports to offer an overall assessment of U.S. intelligence performance. There is much in here on data collection, how requirements are set for data collection, and the techniques for drawing conclusions, but that's not what should interest most Americans. The Kerr report's commentary on the politicization of intelligence, a criticism it rejects, is the key content. Kerr notes that the case is less one of a pre-fabricated policy seeking out only useful intelligence judgments than it is of "policy deliberations deferring to the [Intelligence] Community in an area where classified information and technical analysis were seen as giving [intelligence] unique expertise."
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2005/10/12/director_of_censored_intelligence.php
| 1985 | The first DI Local Area Network system operational.
|
| 1986 |
Counterterrorism Center established under the Directorate of Operations to help
combat growing international terrorist threat. DI officers serve in its
analytic components to provide regional and functional expertise. Richard J. Kerr, a senior Agency official whose background is military analysis, becomes DDI. |
| 1987 | CRAY supercomputer installed in the DI. |
| 1988 | Counterintelligence Center (CIC) is established in
Directorate of Operations; DI officers serve in CIC to provide analytical
support. |
| 1989 |
DCI Counternarcotics Center (CNC) is established, bringing together officers
from across the Agency with the direct participation of most Intelligence
Community and counternarcotics law enforcement and policy agencies. John L. Helgerson, former analyst and director for Congressional affairs, becomes DDI. |