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W. Scott Thompson
Adjunct Professor of International Politics
Education:
BA, Stanford Univeristy;
DPhil in politics as a Rhodes Scholar and Danforth Fellow, Oxford University.

Recent Publications:
Rapid Economic Growth and Political Conflict in Southwest Asia (1998); The Philippine Road to NIChood (1996); The Price of Achievement: Coming Out in Reagan Days (1995); Philippines in Crisis (1992); From Weakness to Strength: National Security in the 1980s (1980). Articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, International Security, Orbis, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Professional Activities:
Former White House Fellow and Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (1975-77); Associate Director, Policy and Programs at the USIA (1982-84); Presidentially appointed member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace (1985-present); Member, Advisory Board, Search for Common Ground, council on foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies; Director, Program in Southeast Asia Studies.

Research Interests:
Politics of Southeast Asia; psychohistory; US foreign policy; Third World conflict resolution.

Here's the information on the first item where his work is published:..........Interesting?

Association of National Security Alumni. Unclassified. (Published quarterly since 1989; edited since 1994 by Verne Lyon; last issue appeared in 1997.)

The Association of National Security Alumni is an organization that seeks to expose and curtail covert actions because they "are counter- productive and damaging to the national interest of the United States, inimical to the operation of an effective national intelligence system, corruptive of civil liberties, ... and they contradict the principles of democracy, national self-determination and international law to which the United States is publicly committed."

David MacMichael, the person who started ANSA and was Unclassified's first editor, is a former CIA analyst who resigned rather than falsify his reports for political reasons. "Unclassified" was valuable for those who follow various judicial and legislative efforts to investigate or remedy abuses within the intelligence community. ANSA helps whistleblowers and tracks current scandals, particularly those that have achieved some official attention (Iran-contra, BCCI, October Surprise, Inslaw, etc.). They are nonideological and nonpartisan in terms of left-right, Democrat-Republican, preferring to stay on the mark by encouraging concrete reforms as a response to recognized problems.