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Major General (Retired) Bruce M. Lawlor (born January 24, 1948) is a retired United States Army officer. He is prominent as the first commander of Joint Task Force-Civil Support. In addition, he was one of five White House staff members who wrote the plan to create the Department of Homeland Security, and he was the first DHS Chief of Staff. ==Early life and service in Vietnam== Bruce Michael Lawlor〔Vermont Adjutant General, List of Vermonters in the Vietnam War 1964-1975, 1986, page 225〕 was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont on January 24, 1948,〔Vermont Secretary of State, Legislative Directory, 1981, page 258〕 and graduated from Vermont Academy in 1966.〔(Vermont Academy ), Florence Sabin Award Winners page, accessed July 13, 2012〕 He briefly attended the United States Military Academy〔Association of Graduates, Register of Graduates and Former Cadets of the United States Military Academy, 1991, page 124〕 before transferring to George Washington University, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in political science in 1970.〔Vermont Secretary of State, Legislative Directory, 1983, page 255〕 While attending George Washington University Lawlor was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency.〔Elizabeth Becker, New York Times, January 9, 2000, (Military Terrorism Operation Has a Civilian Focus )〕〔Douglas Valentine, ''CounterPunch'', 25 August 2002, (Flight of the Phoenix From Vietnam to Homeland Security )〕 After graduation Lawlor became a full CIA staff member, took a paramilitary training course, and was trained as a foreign intelligence officer.〔 Assigned to the Vietnam Desk at CIA headquarters, he was trained in Vietnam agent operations and took a Vietnamese language course.〔〔(Mark Moyar ), Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam, 2007, page 123〕 Lawlor was sent to Vietnam in November 1971, and by the beginning of 1972 was working in counterintelligence in the Danang regional headquarters. In the summer of 1972 Lawlor became Police Special Branch advisor in Quang Nam Province, organizing paramilitary Special Branch operations and interrogations. He took part in Phoenix Program operations until 1973; he resigned from the CIA in 1974.〔〔William P. Mahedy, Out of the Night: The Spiritual Journey of Vietnam Vets, 1988, page 18〕〔Al Santoli, Everything we had: an oral history of the Vietnam War, 1985, page 182〕〔(Bright Quang ), Road to the United States, Part 1, 2006, page 321〕〔(Walter H. Capps ), The Unfinished War: Vietnam and the American Conscience, 1990, page 97〕〔Loren Baritz, Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did, 1986, page 16〕 In 1974 Lawlor received a direct commission in the United States Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer.〔(Tom Jennemann ), Former Homeland Security Chief to Work at Stevens: University Hires Lawlor for Security Initiatives, Hudson Reporter, November 30, 2003〕 Lawlor received his law degree from George Washington University Law School in 1975 and started a practice in Springfield, Vermont.〔Legislative Directory, 1983, page 255〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce M. Lawlor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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