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Upcoming Meeting Dates:

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Tuesday, 8 April 2008

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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 - Tampa, FL Suncoast AFIO Chapter welcomes General Richard T. Ellis

Brigadier General Richard T. Ellis is the Director of Intelligence for U.S. Southern Command.  A graduate of the University of Nevada, he was commissioned in 1978 as a Second Lieutenant in Military Intelligence through the ROTC Program.  He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in International Relations.    

 

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Tuesday, 11 December 2007- Tampa, FL Suncoast AFIO Chapter welcomes Lieutenant Colonel James Sculerati

Lieutenant Colonel James (Jamie) Sculerati is Chief of Intelligence System Requirements, Center for Special Operations, Headquarters United States Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.  He is responsible for managing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capability requirements for joint special operations forces worldwide. 

After graduating from the University of Illinois in January 1984, Lt Colonel Sculerati accepted an Air Force commission and was attached to NASA as a developmental test engineer.  He served in test assignments for six years before cross-training into the intelligence career field.  Subsequently, he served in active duty and reserve intelligence positions in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, including deployments supporting aerial reconnaissance operations in the Mediterranean and Europe.  Before recall to active duty at USSOCOM in October 2004, he worked as a systems engineer on a variety of national and DoD intelligence collection and planning systems.  Lt Colonel Sculerati was selected as the 2005 USSOCOM Reserve Officer of the Year. 

Lt Colonel Sculerati is married to the former Jill Anderson of Tullahoma, Tennessee.  They reside with their children Sam and Sophia in Land O Lakes, Florida.

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Tuesday, 9 October 2007 - Tampa, FL Suncoast AFIO Chapter welcomes retired Deputy Director John Sano

John Sano is the recently retired Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service and was appointed to this position in November 2005 by then DCI Porter Goss. Mr. Sano came to this position after having previously served as Chief of the East Asia Division in the Directorate of Operations from January through November 2005. As Deputy Director, Mr. Sano chaired the NCS’ Senior Leadership Team and oversaw the day-to-day management of the country’s Clandestine Service. In addition, Mr. Sano was an active member of the CIA’s Executive Management Team and regularly briefed senior Administration as well as Congressional Committee members on matters of national security and worldwide covert operations. Through his extensive interaction with other senior Intelligence Community members, Mr. Sano played an integral role in the establishment and direction of the newly formed NCS. 

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Thursday, 3 May 2007: 12:00 noon luncheon to award the Spring 2007 Scholarship. TGIFridays at 2502 E Fowler Ave, Tampa 33612 - 813-979-9112.

Upon entering the restaurant, please ask to be seated in the private dining area with the AFIO party. All AFIO members are welcome to attend. For pictures, click here.

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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 - Tampa, FL- AFIO Suncoast Chapter welcomes former DCIA, Porter Goss, at the MacDill Surf's Edge Club/Enlisted Club (note change in location), at MacDill Air Force Base.

The luncheon speaker is Porter Goss, former Director of the CIA. After graduating from Yale, Porter joined the CIA and worked as a Case Officer in the Directorate of Operations for nine years. He began his political career in local government in 1974 and went on to be elected to Congress in 1988, where he served for 16 years. Among other leadership positions he held, Porter served as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee for 8 years. He left Congress when he was appointed DCI by President George W. Bush. He served as DCI and then Director of the CIA from September 2004 until May 2006. We are honored to have such a dedicated public servant who has been willing to answer the call to serve wherever his country needed him. Due to base security, reservations for this meeting should be received by April 1, 2007. For pictures,  click here.

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Surf's Edge Enlisted Club Phone: 813-840-6900

 MapQuest to Surf's Edage Enlisted Club at 7315 Bayshore Blvd Tampa, FL 33621, US

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12 December 06 - Tampa, FL- AFIO Suncoast Chapter meets at 11:30 a.m. at the Officers' Club, at MacDill Air Force Base. The luncheon speaker is James Pavitt. A 31-year veteran of CIA, who in 1999 was appointed Deputy Director for Operations to head what is now known as the National Clandestine Service, the CIA directorate responsible for the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence. He had served as Associate Deputy Director for Operations from July 1997 through July 1999. He served longer in that position than any DDO in the last 30 years until retiring from CIA and the DO in August 2004. After joining the Agency in 1973 as a Career Trainee, he served in a variety of intelligence assignments in Europe, Asia and at CIA Headquarters. In 1990, he was assigned to the National Security Council as the Director for Intelligence Programs. In June 1992, President Bush appointed him Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and NSC Senior Director for Intelligence Programs. Mr. Pavitt began his intelligence career in the United States Army from 1969-1971 as an intelligence officer. Jim Pavitt is currently a principle at the Scowcroft Group and also serves as a member of the AFIO National Board of Directors.

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10 October 06 - Tampa, FL- AFIO Suncoast Chapter meets at 11:30 a.m. at the Officers' Club, at MacDill Air Force Base. The luncheon speaker is Billy Waugh who was wounded five times in his seven and a half years as a Green Beret in Vietnam. Many of these years were spent behind enemy lines as part of SOG, a top secret group of elite commandos. Sergeant Major Billy Waugh retired in 1972 to continue his craft as an independent contractor with the CIA. In 1994, Waugh was the team leader of a four-man CIA group that laid the groundwork for the capture of Carlos the Jackal, the world's most wanted man at the time. At the age of 71 shortly after 9/11, he was one of the first on the ground as a team member of a combined Special Forces/CIA takedown unit inside Afghanistan. Earlier Waugh had kept surveillance on Osama bin Laden in Khartoum in 1991 and again in 1992 as one of the first CIA operatives assigned to watch the al Qaeda leader. His book, Hunting the Jackal, recounts a remarkable life of service.
 

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11 April 06 - Tampa, FL- AFIO Suncoast Chapter meets at 11:30 a.m. at the Officers Club, at MacDill Air Force Base. The luncheon speaker is Frederick Rustmann, Jr., a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA's Directorate of Operations. He retired in 1990 as a member of the elite Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) with the equivalent rank of major general. Assigned abroad to posts in eight countries in Asia, Europe and Africa during the Cold War, he was heavily involved in the collection of foreign intelligence from human and technical sources. In two of those foreign posts he was the senior CIA officer in country. In addition to out-of-country service, he was an instructor at the CIA's training facility known as "the Farm." After retiring from CIA, he founded CTC International Group, Inc., a pioneer in the field of business intelligence and a recognized leader in the industry. He is the author of CIA, Inc. Espionage and the Craft of Business Intelligence.

 

 

 

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