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December
12,
2002202.226.4009
Miles
L.
Kara
Sr.
Prospectus
for
Potential Independent Commission
Assignment
andCurriculum
Vitae
Prospectus
^
Career Summary
K
6
'
Career
military
intelligence
and counterintelligence
officer,
Colonel,
United States
Army
Retired.
Multipleall-source
analysis assignments,
joint
duty
postings,
evaluation
and
assessment
experience,
language training
and
utilization
tours,
and
Vietnam
duty
as
supervisor
of
intelligence
and
counterintelligence
collections operations.
Ten
years
intelligence
oversight
experience,
Office
of
Intelligence
Review, Inspector
General,
Department
of
Defense.Congressional
inquiries,,
special investigations,
and
joint-agency
projects.
Currently assigned
as
Professional
Staff,
Joint
Inquiry
Staff,
investigating
events
of
September
11,2001
for the
Congressional
intelligence
oversight committees
actingjointly.
Principal
Relevant Skills
•
Experienced investigative interviewer
and
trained interrogator,
to
include identifying
and
locating critical sources, formulating profitable
lines
of
questioning,
and
conductingprobative,
fact
finding inquiries;
•
Proven investigative problem
and
puzzle solver with significant experience
and
repetitive successinsupportofexecutiveandlegislative branch senior
officials;
•
Demonstrated success
in
unraveling
the
story
of
past terrorist attacks, specifically
the
1985
Zona Rosa Massacre in El Salvador, at the specific request of the Senate SelectCommittee on Intelligence and Senator Shelby, and direct tasking by Eleanor Hill.
•
Effective
data miner with broad
training-including
ORSA (Operational Research
and
Systems
Analysis), mastersanddoctoral level quantitativeandqualitative
analysis,
andin-service seminars—long historyof
successful
skill application;• Experienced archival reviewer of large volumes of often disorganized historical data,including such experience at the National Archives and the Ronald Reagan PresidentialLibrary;
•
Acknowledged unconventional, non-linear analyst
who
habitually thinks "outside
the
box."Proposed doctoral
thesis on
application
of
chaos theory
to
analysis, consistentstudent comments about "leaps in logic" that make sense, and intuitive ability
to
conceptualize
differently
in
both "stream
of
consciousness"
and
"holistic"
form;
and
•
Accomplished briefer
and
trained instructor
and
seminar leader with thousands
of
platform
hours
before
diverse
audiences
during educational assignments spanning
ten
years;
•Dedicated
user
of
spreadsheet,
database, word
processing, presentation,andspecialized
applications,
often
in
combination,
to sort,
organize, depict
and
assess
data.
One
such
effort
involved
word, presentation, spreadsheet and
pixel manipulation
programs,incombination
with
government-provided
raw
radar
files, toansweraCongressional
concernposed
separately
bySenatorHelms and
RepresentativeBurton
concerning the
1996
Cuban
shootdo'^ii
of
unarmed
civilian aircraft
over the Florida
Strait.
Curriculum
Vitae
Recent Relevant Experience, with problem
and
puzzle
solving emphasisMarch 2001-Present: Joint Inquiry
Staff
Support'
the first ever bicameral-bipartisan inquiry by Congressional standing committees—the
Senate
Select Committee
on
Intelligence
and the
House Permanent Select Committee
on
Intelligence, into
the
terrorist events
of
September
11,
2001. Work
as
part
of a
self-directed teamresponsible for all
9/11
activities that involve "other
agencies"—the
Departments of Defense,State, Treasury, Transportation
and
Energy
and
elements
of the
Department
of
Justice.Department
ofDefense-related.activity
includes extensive work
with
the
Defense IntelligenceAgency
and
related work with
the
National Information
and
Mapping Agency,
the
NationalReconnaissance
Office,
the
Joint Chiefs
of
Staff,
and
Department
of
Defense policy
offices.
Established viable working
relationships
with senior officials; completed documentary reviews
and
personal interviews; Executed work papers
to
document detailed analysis,
findings and
recommendations; and supported multiple open and closed hearings on a high-pressure,compressed schedule. Personally briefed
the
combined committees
in
formal session
on
whatthe United, States Government knew about the threat of domestic attack. Puzzle solving workincludes: 1) the hijacker story, 2) what the United States Government knew and when they
kne
it'
and 3) what the Joint Inquiry
Staff
now knows.
November
1992-March
2001: Senior Civilian,
Office
of
Intelligence Review,
Inspector
General, Department
of
Defense
Allegations
of
Unauthorized
Imagery
Release. Completed
to final
draft
phase
a
project
that
responded to a
Director
of
Central Intelligence request
to
determine
the
facts
and
circumstancesconcerning
an
imagery release issue,
conducted
jointly with
the
Inspector General, CIA.
The
classified
report detailed issue history since
1986
and
detailed
the
facts
concerning
the
allegation.
Puzzle
solved: What
was
improperly released
and how.'
Superior
Civilian Service Award
Effectiveness
of
Signals Research
and
Target Development within
the
National
Security
Agency.Project
assessed
the
strategy,
standards,
policies, procedures
and
directives
for
implementation
of
signals research
and
target
development, worldwide. Problem solved:
HowNS
A
corporately
planned
for
such research
and
development.
Report
ofthe
Year
Award
Intelligence
Community SupportforDeterminingthe
Fate
ofCommander
Speicher.
Project
0
responded
to a
Senate
Select Committee
on
Intelligence request
and was
conductedjointly
with the
Inspector General, CIA.
The
classified
report
detailed
the
history
of the
Speicher
case
from
1991 to the
present. Puzzle
solved:
Sequence
of
events
in the first
hours
of theSpeicher
loss
and how
erroneous joint
operations
reporting became institutionalized.
Individual
Achievement
Award
\w
of
the
1998
National
Intelligence Estimate
on
POW/MIAIssues
and
the
Charges
Levied
By a
Critical Assessment
of the
Estimate,
a
joint project
with
the
Inspector General,
CIA
Projectresponded
to a
Senate
Select
Committee
on
Intelligence
request
and
examined
tneVietnam-era POW
issue
from
1973
to the
present
and
found
no
credible evidence
to
contravene
a
Hous-
of
Representatives special
cornr--.ee
report
in
1975
that
no
Americans
were
being
heldst
their'will in
Southeast
Asia.
Problem solved:
Inabilityof the
Senate
Select
Cornmir.ee.
>©W/MIA
to
resolved conflicting
judgments by
subjecting
case
data in nearly 300 controversialcases
to rigorous,
structured
review.
President's Council on Integrity and
Efficiency
Award
for Excellence
Intelligence
Support
to
Joint
Counter-Proliferation
Operations.
Project focused
on
Defenseagencies, Services
and
Combatant Commands
to
determine ifintelligence
was
adequate
to
support pi
arming
of counter-proliferation strategies and combatant theater plans concerning
weapons of
mass
destruction.
Problem solved:
Established
an
all-source baseline
by
catalogingall reporting within
the
Defense Intelligence Production Program.
Report
of the
Year
and Team
of
the
Year
Award
Report
to the
Special
Assistant
to theSecretaryof
Defense
for
Gulf
War
Illnesses,
Allegations
"of
Prior
Intelligence
Community
Knowledge of
Iraqi
Chemical Weapons
.
Storage
at
Khamisiyah.
Project reviewed extensive documentaryand
testimonial
evidenceandconcluded there
was no
prior
knowledge. Problem
addressed:
Review
and
display
of
unorganized archival
tactical
data
and
historical
imagery
processing requests
to
conclusively
refute
the
allegation.
. '
"'
.
. -
Team Work Award
Evaluationof the DoDResponseto theBrothersto theRescue Incident, PhaseI. At the
separate
request of Congressman Burton and Senator
Helms,
project
focused on whether Cuban
fighter
aircraft pursued a surviving civilian
aircraft
north of the 24
th
parallel and came within
three
minutes flying
time
of thecontinental United Statesandconcludedthe
fighters
didneither.Puzzles solved included:
•
Second-by-second assessment
of
thousands
of raw
radar returns, hundreds
of
electronicintelligence reports,anddozensofintercepted communicationsin thethirty minutes
after
the
shootdown
to
refute
all
allegations that Cuban aircraft pursued
a
surviving aircraftand approached
within
three
minutes
flying
time
of the
United States coast;
and
• Line-by-line reassessment of a Government-released transcript of the shootdown and analternative version developed
on the
internet,
in
combination with independent civilianassessments, to
establish
a revised transcript that refuted multiple allegations ofconspiracy
and
Government
failure.
Evaluation
of the DoD
Response
to the
Brothers
to the
Rescue Incident, Phase
n.
Project
focused
on
aii
activity overtheFlorida Straitsfrom
1990
to the daypriorto theshoot-downof
the
unarmed civilian aircraft.
The
analysis
compared daily activity
of the
Cuban
Air
Force,
theBrothers to the
Rescue,
and the
United
States
Air
Force
and
established
the
pattern
of
Cubanresponse to exile group air activity and the United States response to Cuban air activity. Puzzles
solved
include:• Day-by-day,rninute-by-minute
assessment
of multiple sources of technical data for thefive years
preceding
the shootdown to conclusively
establish
for the first time the
relationship
among
the
flight
activities
of the two
governments
and the
rescuers;
and .
•
Resolved
a
specific
allegation
that United
States
fighter
aircraft
were
airborne
over
the
Strait of
Florida
at the
time
of the
shootdown.
Given
a
sighting
reported by the
rescue
organization,
found
in the raw
radar data
the
track
of
four
fighter
aircraft
that
were
on a
training
run
over
the
Straits
coincident with
the
shootdown.
Team Work
and
Report
ofthe
Year Award
Inspection
of the
National
Reconnaissance
Office,
Joint
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