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James R. Holbrook
James Holbrook began his U.S. military career in the Navy before becoming an Army private and retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He served as an assistant army attach at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow i...view moreJames Holbrook began his U.S. military career in the Navy before becoming an Army private and retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He served as an assistant army attach at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in 1979-1981.
Before his Moscow assignment, Holbrook worked for eighteen years in a wide variety of Army intelligence positionsas an enlisted Russian linguist in West Berlin, commander of an intelligence detachment in South Vietnam, and as an operational and strategic analyst in the Pentagon and Headquarters, U.S. Army, Europe.
In 1976-1977, he served in East Germany with the U.S. Military Liaison Mission attached to the Commander in Chief, Soviet Group of Forces. Touring East Germany with other officers and non-commissioned officers, he played cat and mouse with East German and Soviet military and intelligence forces. Using recently declassified Army files, he published an account of that assignment in his Potsdam Mission: Memoir of a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in Communist East Germany.
The author holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from The American University and a Doctorate from Georgetown University. He taught Russian at the National Security Agency, The American University and the U.S. Military Academy, West Point.
Holbrooks military decorations include the Legion of Merit, two Bronze Stars, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal and several service and campaign ribbons.
He retired from the Army in 1989 and now lives in Pueblo, Colorado.view less