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News Articles: intelligence

Calvin Smyre

Smyre named to President’s Intelligence Advisory Board

President Joe Biden appointed former state Rep. Calvin Smyre to an independent board that advises the White House on intelligence issues.

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Lyla Kohistany served on active duty from 2001 to 2007 as a Naval Surface Warfare and Intelligence officer and as an intelligence consultant from 2008 to 2013 where she worked from the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, and U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).

As A Child, She Fled The Afghan War. As An Officer, She Returned — And Found Herself

Every day of Lyla Kohistany's life, her native country was at war. But the first time she really saw the place, she was a 25-year-old U.S. Navy intelligence officer.

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  • Quil Lawrence
Avril Haines has been nominated as the first woman to be the director of national intelligence, a position that oversees all 17 intelligence agencies. Here, Haines speaks after President-elect Joe Biden introduced her last week in Wilmington, Del.

The Winding Journey Of Avril Haines, Biden's Pick To Lead U.S. Intelligence

Avril Haines, the first women nominated to the top intelligence post, took a strange path to this job. She studied judo in Japan, physics in college, and rebuilt a plane that she later crash-landed.

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  • Greg Myre