From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia S. Eugene Poteat
S. Eugene Poteat
S. Eugene Poteat is a retired senior Central Intelligence
Agency executive[1] He was awarded the CIA’s Intelli-
References
gence Medal of Merit[2][3] and the National Reconnais- [1] S. Eugene Poteat, Biography, Center for
sance Office Meritorious Civilian Award. He is President Counterintelligence and Security Studies
of AFIO - the Association For Intelligence Officers and is [2] Awards and decorations of the United States
on the Board of Advisors of the International Spy Muse- government
um. In addition, he serves as a Member of the Advisory [3] FAS Factbook: CIA Medals
Board of Intellaine, LLP, a U.S. defense and risk engineer- [4] Intellaine, LLP
ing firm located in Arlington, Virginia.[4] [5] S. Eugene Poteat, "Engineering in the CIA: ELINT,
He graduated from The Citadel (military college) with Stealth and the Beginnings of Information
a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1957, and holds a Warfare", The Bent of Tau Beta Pi, Fall 1999
Master’s degree in Statecraft and National Security Af- [6] S. Eugene Poteat, "Intelligence analysis paralysis",
fairs with a specialization in Intelligence Studies from the AFIO Periscope Newsletter, 2005, pages 3-6
Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He has also [7] Michelle Delio, "A peek inside the secret world", 10
taken graduate courses in foreign policy, national securi- November 2003
ty and intelligence at Cambridge University. [8] Jeffrey T. Richelson, "The Wizards of Langley:
After college he worked for Bell Telephone Laborato- Inside the CIA’s Directorate of Science and
ries in New Jersey and Cape Canaveral. Technology", Westview Press (July 2001), 386
He joined the CIA in 1960, and worked there for 30 pages, ISBN 978-0813366999
years, also serving abroad in London and Scandinavia. [9] S. Eugene Poteat, "George Washington: Spymaster
He was a participant in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Extraordinare", February 2000
In the Fall of 1999, he wrote that he was asked in early
August 1964 to determine if the radar operator’s report
showed a real torpedo boat attack or an imagined one.
External links
He asked for further details on time, weather and surface • Prof. Poteat comments on Polish plane crash in
conditions. No further details were forthcoming. In the Tygodnik Solidarnosc: "Russian Image Management -
end he concluded that there were no torpedo boats on - Making Unpleasant Historical Truths About Poland
the night in question, and that the White House was in- Disappear".
terested only in confirmation of an attack, not that there Persondata
was no such attack [5] (For a historical parallel to this in- Name Poteat, S. Eugene
cident, see Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.)
Alternative names
He was a program manager for the sensors on the
Lockheed U-2 and the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Short description
He has written about intelligence problems in the Date of birth
AFIO newsletter.[6] He was written about in Wired Place of birth
Magazine,[7] and in a book about CIA science and technol-
ogy.[8] Date of death
He is a 32nd degree Freemason,[9] a member of the Place of death
Dorchester Lodge No. 369 of North Charleston, South
Carolina, and a member of the Scottish Rite Bodies of
Charleston.
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