James R. Clapper

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James R. Clapper (2010)

James Robert Clapper (born March 14, 1941 in Fort Wayne ) is a retired general in the United States Air Force . He held various senior positions within the United States Intelligence Community and served as National Intelligence Director (DNI) from 2010 and as such coordinator of the United States Intelligence Services until the end of the Obama administration's tenure on January 20, 2017.

Life

origin

Clapper was born in Indiana , his father James Robert Clapper sr. was First Lieutenant , his grandfather was a priest of the Episcopal Church .

Career

Military career

After a brief period of active service in the United States Marine Corps , Clapper joined the United States Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps in his first year of service and completed a bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Maryland by 1963 . He left the University of Maryland with the rank of second lieutenant .

In 1964 he was posted to Kelly Air Force Base in Texas . From the end of 1965 to the end of 1966, he was deployed for the first time in the Indochina War at the Tan Son Nhut Thai Air Force Base (near Ho Chi Minh City ). Back in Texas, he resumed his studies and received his master's degree from St. Mary's University in San Antonio in 1970 . His second command then took him to Thailand, where he was stationed with the third division of the 6994th Security Squadron at the Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base Tan Son Nhut (near Ho Chi Minh City). In total, he flew 73 support missions over Laos and Cambodia during the Indochina War .

In 1971, Clapper became an assistant to the then NSA director Noel Gayler at Fort George G. Meade . He was then a staff officer and advisor to the commandant of Andrews Air Force Base , Maryland . From 1974 to 1975 he graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College (now part of the National Defense University ) at Maxwell Air Force Base in Norfolk (Virginia) and graduated with honors. He then became head of the military reconnaissance in the Hawaiian camp HM Smith and 1978/1979 followed another study at the National War College at Fort Lesley J. McNair . Back in Fort Meade and then in Washington, he held senior positions in the Air Force's Electronic Security Command .

From 1985 he held the rank of brigadier general , as this he commanded three major formations:

After two years as general intelligence officer in the US Air Force, he became director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (D / DIA) in 1992 until he retired from active military service in 1995 with the rank of lieutenant general .

Intelligence Director

From 2001 to 2006, Clapper headed the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (D / NGA).

Clapper 2011 with Ronald Burgess , then head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and then Defense Minister Leon Panetta (right)

He was proposed by US President Barack Obama as Director of National Intelligence Services (DNI) on June 5, 2010 and confirmed by the US Senate on August 5, 2010 . As such, during the surveillance and espionage affair in May 2013 before the Congressional Intelligence Committee , he testified that the NSA does not collect data from (hundreds of) millions of US citizens ( Senator asked: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? "Clapper's answer:" No, sir. " ). Three weeks later, he admitted that metadata from phone calls and devices was or is being stored and analyzed. But he stayed in office.

On November 17, 2016, a week after Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election , Clapper announced his resignation to the US Congress on January 20, 2017. On March 16, 2017, Dan Coats became his successor at the DNI .

On June 7, 2017, Clapper made a statement at a lecture. The Watergate affair pales in comparison with the Russia affair. He was "very concerned about the attack on our institutions, which came from both an external source such as Russia and an internal source such as the President himself." Russia's interference in the US presidential campaign in 2016 was "unprecedented in its directness and aggressiveness ".

Activities in the private sector

After 1995, Clapper worked for various military service providers , mainly for Booz Allen Hamilton , but also for SRA International and Vredenburg.

Lectureship

In 2006/07 he taught Practice of Intelligence (for example: "Applied Enlightenment") at the private Georgetown University . He is also an Honorary Doctor of Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University in Washington, DC ; there he also taught as a visiting professor.

literature

  • James R. Clapper , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 37/2013 from September 10, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • James R. Clapper, Trey Brown: The hard truth: What I learned as the highest US intelligence chief , riva Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7423-0834-4 .

Web links

Commons : James R. Clapper  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Intelligence coordinator declares resignation . On November 17, 2016 on faz.net
  2. ↑ a b c d e Official - AllGov , allgov.com. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ dpa: espionage budget of 80 billion dollars. In: FAZ.net. October 29, 2010, accessed April 4, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Watch Top US Intelligence Officials Repeatedly Deny NSA Spying On Americans Over The Last Year , [[Forbes Magazine <forbes.com]]
  5. ↑ DNI press release of June 6, 2013: DNI Statement on Recent Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information ( Memento of the original of June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dni.gov
  6. ↑ theguardian.com July 3, 2013: James Clapper, EU play-acting, and political priorities
  7. ↑ theguardian.com , Himes says Clapper comments on Trump 'absolutely stunning'
  8. ↑ FAZ.net June 7, 2017
  9. ↑ Excerpts from his speech: Sydney Morning Herald online : [1]
  10. ^ Matthias Rüb: A troop of more than 850,000 men. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 11, 2013, accessed June 11, 2013 .
  11. Jump up ↑ Profiles: General James Clapper , BBC website. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
  12. ↑ Georgetown Announces INSA Professor in the Practice of Intelligence ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Georgetown University - Official Website. Retrieved August 15, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / explore.georgetown.edu
  13. ^ NIU's Convocation Ushers in a New Class and a New Name for 2012. (No longer available online.) Dia.mil, October 1, 2013, archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; accessed on November 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Clapper, James R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clapper, James Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION U.S. Lieutenant General, National Intelligence Director
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Wayne , Indiana