Robert James Woolsey, Jr. (born September 21, 1941) is a foreign policy specialist and former Director of Central Intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency (1993-1995).

Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1941 where he attended public school. In 1963 he received his BA from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa), and in 1965 his MA from Oxford University—where he was a Rhodes Scholar—and an LLB from Yale Law School in 1968.

Woolsey has served in the U.S. government as:

• Advisor (during military service) on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT 1), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969-1970
• General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970-73
• Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-1979
• Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), Geneva, 1983-1986
• Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989-1991
• Director of Central Intelligence, 1993-1995

He is currently chairman of the Freedom House board of trustees, trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Vice President at Booz Allen & Hamilton for Global Strategic Security, and a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner .

He is also a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signatories to the January 26, 1998, PNAC Letter sent to President Clinton.

Related Topics

• Project for the New American Century
• Committee on the Present Danger
• Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
• Coalition for a Democratic Majority
• Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
• Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Freedom House
• ECHELON

External Links

• Woolsey's World War IV speech
• Woolsey's political donations
• Disinfopedia article on Woolsey

Preceded by: Robert M. Gates

Director of the C.I.A.

Succeeded by: John M. Deutch