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(C) Bob Blackwell Joins
FROM: Bob Blackwell
Assistant Deputy Director for Analysis and Production
Run Date: 10/23/2003
(C) After a long career in CIA, I am delighted to have an opportunity to serve in NSA. Despite
the commute (90 miles every day), I am excited to be here and happy to be working with Jim
Allen and the rest of leadership . I am working hard, but realize that I still have a lot to
learn. Fortunately, everyone is pitching in to help me. I intend to get around to the Product
Lines on a reasonably frequent basis and see how SIGINT is created.
(U) Note from SIGINT Communications: Mr Blackwell's bio follows:
(C) Robert E. Blackwell has been assigned as the Assistant Deputy Director for Analysis and
Production since late August. Bob has been touring A and and SID to familiarize himself with
SID, its organizational responsibilities, issues and people. Bob comes to us from CIA and
replacesF also a CIA employee. Prior to assuming his current position, he had
been the ssue anager for European Issues in the Office of Russia and Eurasia in CIA's
Directorate of Intelligence since September 1997. Before that he served as the Director of
European Analysis.
A Soviet Union expert, Mr. Blackwell served as the National Intelligence Of?cer for
the USSR from 1987 to 1992. Prior to that assignment, he was the Chief of the Soviet Domestic
Division responsible for analysis of changes in Soviet leadership and the likely implications for
the US. In this period he accompanied then Vice-President George Bush to the funeral of three
Soviet leaders. During the course of his career, he briefed Presidents Carter, Reagan, and Bush
and other senior US. and foreign of?cials on developments in the Soviet Union. From 1975 to
1981, Mr. Blackwell was a Soviet Analyst.
(U) Mr. Blackwell was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree
from the University of Georgia, holds a Master of Arts in American Government Studies also
from the University of Georgia and a doctorate degree in Soviet Studies from the University of
Michigan.
(U) Mr. Blackwel
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