Stephen Slick

Stephen Slick - official photo
Stephen Slick is the Director of the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin

Stephen B. Slick is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations officer and United States National Security Council official.[1] He currently leads the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin,[2] where he is also a Clinical Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. During a 28-year career in the CIA’s Clandestine Service, he completed five overseas tours, including two as chief of station (COS) and senior intelligence community representative. In the administration of President George W. Bush, Mr. Slick played a central role developing the White House’s response to the recommendations of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (Kean-Hamilton) and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) (Silberman-Robb) commissions. He also played key roles in developing the provisions of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 and amendments to Executive Order 12333, issued by President Bush in 2008.[3][4]

Education and early career

Slick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) (with high honors) in political science from Pennsylvania State University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the UCLA School of Law, where he was a member of Law Review. He also received a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs while studying on a John L. Weinberg fellowship.

From 1983-1986, Slick was a litigation associate at the Rawle and Henderson law firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

After completing basic tradecraft and foreign language training, Slick was assigned under official cover overseas as an operations officer in Eastern Europe and South Asia, and as Deputy Chief of Station in Eurasia. From 1996-1998, he was assigned to CIA Headquarters, where he directed the CIA’s training and tradecraft development for operations in complex security and counterintelligence environments.

Executive and policy career

Steve Slick speaking at the 2015 National Security Forum at the University of Texas at Austin
Steve Slick speaking at the Conference on "Intelligence in American Society" at the University of Texas at Austin (2016)

After serving as Chief of Station in a Central European capital from 1998-2000, Slick returned to Langley to lead the CIA’s Balkan Operations. He then became an Executive Assistant to Deputy Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin. In 2004, he moved to the National Security Council (NSC) as Director for Intelligence Programs. In 2005, Slick was appointed Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for Intelligence Programs and Reform.[5] In this latter position, he was an advisor on intelligence matters to the President and the assistants to the President for national security affairs, homeland security, and counterterrorism.

At the NSC, Slick chaired the Policy Coordination Committee on Intelligence Programs, leading administrative and interagency reviews of ongoing and proposed covert action programs and sensitive intelligence collection activities.

In 2016, Slick participated in a panel presentation for SXSW

Slick was part of a team led by NSC Counsel John Bellinger and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs David Shedd that supported the development of an administration response to recommendations for government reform put forward by the 9/11 Commission. The team also lobbied for what would ultimately be enacted as the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (the IRTPA). Slick led an NSC staff review of recommendations by the Silberman-Robb Commission regarding intelligence failures in connection with pre-war assessments of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. During his White House assignment, Slick advocated for strong central leadership of the Intelligence Community while preserving the CIA’s traditional roles in human intelligence, coordinating intelligence activities overseas, and conducting covert action directed by the President and supervised by the NSC.

During President Bush’s second term, Slick supported calls by Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board to revise Executive Order 12333. The Order, originally issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, served as the “charter” for U.S. intelligence. Many of its terms became obsolete on passage of the IRTPA. Slick led the year-long process of interagency coordination of a revised Executive Order 12333, which President Bush signed in July 2008.[6]

After assisting with the transition of intelligence activities to the Obama administration, Slick returned to the CIA in early 2009. He was given a four-year assignment as Chief of Station and the Director of National Intelligence’s Representative in a Middle Eastern capital. He retired from federal service in 2014.

In January 2015, Slick was named the first Director of the Intelligence Studies Project,[7] sponsored jointly by the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the William P. Clements Jr. Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Texas at Austin. He was appointed as a Clinical Professor at the University’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the same time.

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References

  1. ↑ "Personnel Announcement". White House of President George W. Bush. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Former Senior CIA Clandestine Service Officer and White House Official to Lead Strauss, Clements Center Program on Intelligence". Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Slick, Stephen. "The 2008 Amendments to Executive Order 12333, United States Intelligence Activities". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Background Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the Revision of Executive Order 12333". Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Personnel Announcement". White House of President George W. Bush. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "The 2008 Amendments to Executive Order 12333, United States Intelligence Activities". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Former Senior CIA Clandestine Service Officer and White House Official to Lead Strauss, Clements Center Program on Intelligence". Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
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