Richard Kerr
According to his Department of Homeland Security biography, Richard Kerr "served in the Intelligence Community for 32 years-from September 1960 until March 1992. He started as a country analyst in CIA and ended his career as the senior professional intelligence officer in the U.S. government serving as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. During his career, he managed a full range of CIA elements, served in all four directorates, and led two of them. He also had key jobs on the Intelligence Community Staff; spent two years on the staff of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Forces Pacific; and was the President of the Security Affairs Support Association (SASA). He currently serves on corporate boards, sits on the advisory panel for DOE laboratories, and is a frequent consultant to government and industry. During his career, Mr. Kerr was awarded two National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medals for work in the Intelligence Community and two Distinguished Intelligence Medals for work in CIA. He was given the Citizens Medal-the nations second highest civilian award-by President George Herbert Walker Bush for his work in support of Desert Storm."
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- Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, Internal review backs CIA on Iraq, but notes lack of details, Knight-Ridder, July 2, 2003: "Former CIA deputy director Richard Kerr, who is leading the study, said he found that the spy agency was "surprisingly consistent" in reporting during the year before the U.S. invasion of Iraq that Baghdad was trying to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. ... But Kerr, in a telephone interview with Knight Ridder, said the status and locations of those weapons programs was 'harder to conclude.'".
- John Diamond, CIA will examine raw data on Iraq, USA Today, November 19, 2003: "The probe, which has been conducted by a four-member team of former senior CIA analysts since early this year, was broadened this week. It will now extend into 20 volumes of raw intelligence reports, such as electronic intercepts, spy satellite photos and reports from human sources. Until now, the team had limited its work to a far smaller volume of finished intelligence reports and assessments. ... The expanded probe was disclosed by two intelligence officials who asked not be named, and was confirmed by Richard Kerr, former CIA deputy director and head of the four-member team."
