Melvin Goodman
{{short description|American national security and intelligence expert}}
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Melvin Allan "Mel" Goodman is a national security and intelligence expert. He has worked as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the State Department, taught at the National War College and Johns Hopkins University, and is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.{{cite web|url=http://www.ciponline.org/about-us/experts-staff/melvin_goodman| title=Melvin A. Goodman|publisher=Center for International Policy|access-date=February 27, 2013}}
Career
Goodman's career in intelligence began in the U.S. Army where he worked as cryptographer.{{cite web |last=Lepore |first=Jill | author-link = Jill Lepore |title=How much military is enough? |url=http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/01/28/130128crat_atlarge_lepore |publisher=New Yorker |access-date=6 October 2013 |date=28 Jan 2013}} He then worked as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, from 1966 to 1974. He transferred to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1974, where he spent the next two years working as a senior analyst. He returned to the Central Intelligence Agency in 1976, and served as the division chief and senior analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs until leaving in 1986.
He also served as an intelligence adviser to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
He went on to teach at the National War College as a professor of international security, from 1986 through 2004. He is currently an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.
Works
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YmkC_hWeVaEC&q=melvin+goodman|title=The Wars of Edvard Shevardnadze|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1991|isbn=978-0-275-93696-9}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1MKN8S4JXBEC&q=melvin+goodman|title=The wars of Ėduard Shevardnadze|author=Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl |author2=Melvin Allan Goodman |publisher=Penn State Press|year=1997|isbn=978-0-271-03906-0}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3hG31YH858C&q=melvin+goodman&pg=PR4|title=The Phantom Defense, America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion| publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2001|isbn=978-0-275-97183-0}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fkz4FkC727IC&q=melvin+goodman|title=Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives are Putting the World at Risk|publisher=Prometheus Books|year=2004|isbn=978-1-61614-000-7}}
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/failureofintelli0000good|url-access=registration|quote=melvin goodman.|title=Failure of Intelligence: the Decline and Fall of the CIA| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2008|isbn=978-0-7425-5110-7}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9VJb-ffBrmQC&q=melvin+goodman|title=National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism|publisher=City Lights Books|year=2013|isbn=978-0-87286-589-1}}{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/National-Insecurity-by-Melvin-Goodman-4206890.php|title='National Insecurity,' by Melvin Goodman|author=Catherine Lutz|date=January 18, 2013|quote=Rather than casting the standard line—these are the ills of a nation that has not competed well in a global marketplace—Goodman attaches this decline in the American quality of life to a metastasizing military budget allowed by our erroneous belief in the ability of force to make the world a better place.}}
- Whistleblower at the CIA. An Insiders Account of the Politics of Intelligence. City Lights Books. 2016. {{ISBN|9780872867307}}
References
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External links
- {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/03/a-new-director-or-a-new-direction-for-the-cia/restore-reliability-and-accountability|title=Restore Reliability and Accountability|work=The New York Times|author=Melvin Goodman}}
- {{cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/12/cia-veteran-how-robert-gates-cooked-intelligence|title=CIA Veteran: How Robert Gates Cooked the Intelligence|work=Mother Jones| author=Daniel Schulman|author-link=Daniel Schulman (writer)|date=December 4, 2006}}
- {{cite web|title=Profile: Melvin A. Goodman|url=http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=melvin_a._goodman|publisher=History Commons|access-date=27 February 2013}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/melvin_goodman|title=Shows featuring Melvin Goodman|publisher=Democracy Now|access-date=February 27, 2013}}
- {{cite web|url=http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-cycle/50978632#50978632|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302153136/http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-cycle/50978632/#50978632|archive-date=March 2, 2013|title=Mel Goodman interviewed on MSNBC's "The Cycle"|publisher=MSNBC|access-date=February 28, 2013}}
- {{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/01/28/130128crat_atlarge_lepore|title=The Force: How Much Military is Enough?|magazine=The New Yorker|date=20 January 2013|access-date=January 28, 2013}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melvin-goodman/nine-ways-to-reduce-defen_b_2808002.html|title=9 Ways to Reduce Defense Spending|date=5 March 2013|publisher=Huffington Post|access-date=March 5, 2013}}
- {{C-SPAN|20670}}
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Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty
Category:National War College faculty
Category:Analysts of the Central Intelligence Agency
Category:United States Department of State officials
Category:American political writers
Category:American foreign policy writers
Category:American male non-fiction writers