Former CIA and NSA director Gen. Michael Hayden. Photo: Reuters/Chris Usher/CBS News
James G. Richards, Darien Times: Conversation with a spy
Only one person has ever been director of both the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency. That person is retired Four-Star General Michael Hayden. Recently I had the chance to talk to Mike Hayden on Capitol Hill. We were both there as part of a conclave to discuss the status of Iran-U.S. negotiations on uranium enrichment. We had a chance to talk one-on-one about my specialty, which is financial warfare, and the potential impact on investors.
General Hayden’s career as a military and intelligence officer spans four decades beginning with his commission as an Air Force officer in 1969. From 1980 to 1982 he was intelligence chief at Osan Air Force Base in Korea. From 1996 to 1997, he commanded the Air Intelligence Agency, today part of the Twenty-Fifth Air Force, which is one of the 17 separate agencies that make up the U.S. Intelligence Community.
WNU Editor: Financial warfare .... and its growing importance in future conflicts .... is one of those stories that needs to be covered more extensively. This post is a good start to better appreciate why this type of warfare is going to be more extensively employed in the years to come.
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