Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--An international security authority who now leads the National Defense Intelligence College speaks Sept. 21 at Mississippi State.
A. Denis Clift will lead a public program titled "The Dynamics of Globalization: The Shaping of Leaders." His presentation begins at 3 p.m. in the Forum Room of Griffis Hall, a part of the university's Northeast Village complex. [Ed. note: "Denis" is correct.]
Clift, a New York native, also serves with MSU President Robert H. "Doc" Foglesong as a member of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on Prisoners of War/Missing in Action, an organization created to help account for missing service personnel from past military conflicts.
The National Defense Intelligence College is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency. An accredited institution of higher learning, it both educates military and civilian intelligence professionals and conducts and disseminates intelligence and intelligence-related research.
A Stanford University and University of London graduate, Clift is a former U.S. naval officer who went on to spend considerable time as an intelligence and international security specialist in the White House and other parts of the executive branch.
Clift also is a published author. His works include "Our World in Antarctica" (Rand McNally, 1962), "A Death in Geneva" (Ballantine Books/Random House, 1988) and "With Presidents to the Summit" (University Press of America, 1993).
"With Presidents" recounts his role as a senior staff member of the White House's National Security Council. The book provides an insider's view of summit negotiations during the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Clift's visit is co-sponsored by MSU's Appalachian Leadership Honors Program, Shackouls Honors College and the department of political science and public administration.
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For more information, contact Kelly Rice of the Appalachian Leadership Honors Program at 662-325-0244 or kam142@saffairs.msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.