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Milton Bearden a retired Central Intelligence Agency officer, author, film consultant, and third chair on the Dudley and Bob with Matt Morning Show. Bearden is President and CEO of the (Asia-Africa Projects Group ), a Washington, DC-based resource development and advisory services firm. As of 2003, Bearden lives in Reston, Virginia with his French-born wife, Marie-Catherine, a University professor Bearden was born in Oklahoma and spent his early years in the Washington state, where his father worked on the Manhattan Project, and later moved with his family to Houston, Texas. After serving in the United States Air Force, he joined the CIA in 1964. Bearden is a member of the Yale Veterans Association and the University of Texas Exes. == Career with the CIA == During his 30-year career with the CIA Bearden was a station chief in Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan and Germany. In Pakistan from 1986 to 1989, he became a CIA Field Officer in Afghanistan. He played a role in funding and training the mujahedeen to fight occupying Soviet forces. Bearden appeared several times in the BBC Documentary by Adam Curtis called The Power of Nightmares where he talked of his involvement with the Mujahadeen, the Afghan Arabs and how he was assigned to the role by William Casey the then current Director of Central Intelligence. According to Bearden, Casey told him that Afghanistan seemed to be possibly one of the keys to winning. Casey said "'I want you to go to Afghanstian, I want you to go next month and I will give you what ever you need to win... He gave me the Stinger missiles and a billion dollars!" Bearden was one of the senior CIA officials criticized in the 1994 "snitch fax". The fax was allegedly written by ex-CIA officer David Sullivan, and addressed to members of Congress investigating CIA issues, including the Aldrich Ames spy case.〔Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA, Mark Riebling, 1994, pub by Alfred A Knopf〕〔(C.I.A. Officer's Suit Tells Tale of Betrayal and Disgrace ) By TIM WEINER, NY Times, September 01, 1996〕 He was later appointed the Chief of the Soviet/East European Division during the collapse of the Soviet Union. He received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Intelligence Medal of Merit and the Donovan Award for his CIA service. He received the Federal Cross of Merit from the President of the German Federal Republic for his service in Germany at the end of the Cold War. 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「Milton Bearden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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