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Member of the Security Policy Working Group.

CDI (Washington, D.C.) Staff

 * Dr. Bruce G. Blair, President, World Security Institute
 * Theresa Hitchens, Director, CDI

Distinguished Military Fellows and Research Analysts: 
 * Charles E. Wilhelm, Gen. (Ret.) USMC
 * Anthony C. Zinni, Gen. (Ret.) USMC
 * Winslow T. Wheeler, Director, CDI's Straus Military Reform Project
 * Philip E. Coyle, III, Senior Advisor
 * Dr. G. Wayne Glass, Senior Advisor
 * John Newhouse, Senior Fellow
 * David Johnson, Senior Fellow
 * Ivan Safranchuk, Director, CDI-Moscow
 * Nikolai V. Zlobin, Director, World Security Insitute Russian and Asian Programs
 * Rachel Stohl, Senior Analyst
 * Mark Burgess, Director, World Security Institute-Brussels
 * Victoria Samson, Research Analyst

Directors
Accessed March 2010:


 * Bruce G. Blair
 * Alan H. Fleischmann
 * John Fullerton
 * James D. Head
 * Alan F. Kay
 * Robert M. Meyers - chair
 * Julie Schecter
 * Philip A. Straus, Jr.
 * James Wertsch

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Former President, Gene R. La Rocque
 * Nicholas Berry
 * Sanford Gottlieb
 * Harold Willens
 * Dale Bumpers - former Director

Contact
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