In 2005, Paul Pillar retired after a 28-year intelligence career in positions such as National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia; Chief of Analytic Units at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); an original member of the National Intelligence Council’s Analytic Group; Executive Assistant to CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence; Executive Assistant to Director of Central Intelligence William Webster; and Head of Assessments and Information Group and Deputy Chief of the DCI Counterterrorist Center. Pillar is a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and a former core faculty member at Georgetown University Security Studies Program. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his Ph.D. from Princeton University, and a B.Phil. from Oxford University.
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