Called to Service: A Life Adventure in Foreign Policy

Called to Service: A Life Adventure in Foreign Policy is the memoirs of Gregory F. Treverton, former Chair of the US National Intelligence Council (NIC). Greg’s career, described in eight chapters, starts with his transition from a scholar at Harvard to the ground breaking Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, known as the Church Committee. Next he recounts his time in the Carter Administration, his academic and policy career’s journey with stints at the RAND Corporation and various increasingly influential posts within the intelligence community culminating with the Chair role at the NIC. The progress of his career parallels the development of the modern national security infrastructure and its challenges from the late Vietnam era, through Watergate, the Balkans, and the post-9/11 security challenges of bridging domestic and foreign intelligence, homeland security and broader national and global security.; and much more…

Called to Service: A Life Adventure in Foreign Policy is the memoirs of Gregory F. Treverton, former Chair of the US National Intelligence Council (NIC). Greg’s career, described in eight chapters, starts with his transition from a scholar at Harvard to the ground breaking Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, known as the Church Committee. Next he recounts his time in the Carter Administration, his academic and policy career’s journey with stints at the RAND Corporation and various increasingly influential posts within the intelligence community culminating with the Chair role at the NIC. The progress of his career parallels the development of the modern national security infrastructure and its challenges from the late Vietnam era, through Watergate, the Balkans, and the post-9/11 security challenges of bridging domestic and foreign intelligence, homeland security and broader national and global security.; and much more…