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I am Gerald Griffin and I served 31 years with CIA’s Directorate of
Intelligence, retiring as a senior analyst for Africa, having supported the

foreign policy objectives of seven U.S. Presidential administrations.

One constant under all was Africa’s many coups, civil wars, and insurgencies,

which put Americans there at risk. Along with others, I assessed on short
notice their safety and need for rescue. When my wife and most other
Americans were in long gasoline lines, I briefed before the U.S. Foreign
Relations Committee that Nigeria would not join OPEC’s 1973-74 oil

embargo, but rather would maximize production, which proved correct.

Following the Cold War’s end, advancing the American ideal of spreading
democracy in the Third World became a focus. Tasked by the Department of

State to help it “operationalize” how to do this in Africa, I developed a
checklist used by diplomats in the field to gauge barriers and progress. I
provided briefing book support for two U.S. Presidential visits to Africa,

intended to promote American interests. In 1994, genocide and state collapse
in Rwanda horrified the American public, after which I and others were tasked
for ideas on how to stabilize the situation and promote recovery and

reconciliation. After retiring, I returned under contract for four years to teach
tradecraft skills and substantive knowledge to new CIA hires.

I am Barbara Scott and I worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for 33
years. I was hired in 1972, fresh out of graduate school and just before I
turned 21 years old.

I started my career writing biographies of African politicians. After President
Kennedy's death, we worked with the Department of State to prepare
biographies of all the foreign leaders coming to his funeral. After the Cuban

missile crisis, we wrote biographies on every Cuban in our files at the request
of the State Department and our ops officers.

I later transferred to work in current political analysis, also with African
countries, primarily the Congo and South Africa. Reports that I wrote were
shared and discussed with my counterparts at the State Department and the

Defense Intelligence Agency, so that when they went to the White House, the
President was assured that this information was fully coordinated within the
intelligence community, and not just my opinion. They were hand-delivered
to the President each morning in his "Presidential Daily Brief."

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