
Fulton T. Armstrong
is a writer, analyst and adjunct professor
at American University and Syracuse
University’s Maxwell School Program in
Washington, DC. He teaches about
intelligence, foreign policy, and Latin
America. He is also aguest lecturer at the
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. He
has conducted workshops in intelligence
analysis in Latin America as well. He is
author of
A Guide to Producing Actionable
Intelligence: Drivers, Scenarios, and Policy
(2023).
Before 2012, he followed Asian, Latin
American, and European affairs for 35 years
in a number of different positions,
initially as a journalist/editor and later
as a senior intelligence and policy
specialist. He served as a senior
professional staff member on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee in 2008-11,
where he also worked closely with the
committee’s investigations team. Prior to
that, he was chief intelligence advisor to a
U.S. military commander in Europe and NATO
(2005-07); U.S. National Intelligence
Officer for Latin America (2000-04); and
chief of staff of the DCI Crime and
Narcotics Center. He served two terms as a
Director for Inter-American Affairs at the
National Security Council (White House),
1995-99. In the early years of his career,
he was a legislative assistant for foreign
affairs and press secretary for a Member of
the U.S. House of Representatives, and
reporter and editor for radio and magazines
while living in Taiwan. Born in New York
City, he has spent some 15 years of his life
studying and working in Europe, Asia, and
Latin America. He speaks English, Spanish
and Chinese.
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