December 12, 2002

202.226.4009
Miles L. Kara Sr.
Prospectus for Potential Independent Commission Assignment
and Curriculum Vitae
Prospectus
^ Career Summary K6'
Career military intelligence and counterintelligence officer, Colonel, United States Army
Retired. Multiple all-source analysis assignments, joint duty postings, evaluation and assessment
experience, language training and utilization tours, and Vietnam duty as supervisor of
intelligence and counterintelligence collections operations. Ten years intelligence oversight
experience, Office of Intelligence Review, Inspector General, Department of Defense.
Congressional inquiries,, special investigations, and joint-agency projects. Currently assigned as
Professional Staff, Joint Inquiry Staff, investigating events of September 11,2001 for the
Congressional intelligence oversight committees acting jointly.
Principal Relevant Skills
• Experienced investigative interviewer and trained interrogator, to include identifying and
locating critical sources, formulating profitable lines of questioning, and conducting
probative, fact finding inquiries;
• Proven investigative problem and puzzle solver with significant experience and
repetitive success in support of executive and legislative branch senior officials;
• Demonstrated success in unraveling the story of past terrorist attacks, specifically the
1985 Zona Rosa Massacre in El Salvador, at the specific request of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence and Senator Shelby, and direct tasking by Eleanor Hill.
• Effective data miner with broad training-including ORSA (Operational Research and
Systems Analysis), masters and doctoral level quantitative and qualitative analysis, and
in-service seminars—long history of successful skill application;
• Experienced archival reviewer of large volumes of often disorganized historical data,
including such experience at the National Archives and the Ronald Reagan Presidential
Library;
• Acknowledged unconventional, non-linear analyst who habitually thinks "outside the
box." Proposed doctoral thesis on application of chaos theory to analysis, consistent
student comments about "leaps in logic" that make sense, and intuitive ability to
conceptualize differently in both "stream of consciousness" and "holistic" form; and
• Accomplished briefer and trained instructor and seminar leader with thousands of
platform hours before diverse audiences during educational assignments spanning ten
years;
• Dedicated user of spreadsheet, database, word processing, presentation, and specialized
applications, often in combination, to sort, organize, depict and assess data. One such
effort involved word, presentation, spreadsheet and pixel manipulation programs, in
combination with government-provided raw radar files, to answer a Congressional
concern posed separately by Senator Helms and Representative Burton concerning the
1996 Cuban shootdo'^ii of unarmed civilian aircraft over the Florida Strait.
 Curriculum Vitae
Recent Relevant Experience, with problem and puzzle solving emphasis
March 2001-Present: Joint Inquiry Staff
Support' the first ever bicameral-bipartisan inquiry by Congressional standing committees—the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, into the terrorist events of September 11, 2001. Work as part of a self-directed team
responsible for all 9/11 activities that involve "other agencies"—the Departments of Defense,
State, Treasury, Transportation and Energy and elements of the Department of Justice.
Department of Defense-related.activity includes extensive work with the Defense Intelligence
Agency and related work with the National Information and Mapping Agency, the National
Reconnaissance Office, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Department of Defense policy offices.
Established viable working relationships with senior officials; completed documentary reviews
and personal interviews; Executed work papers to document detailed analysis, findings and
recommendations; and supported multiple open and closed hearings on a high-pressure,
compressed schedule. Personally briefed the combined committees in formal session on what
the United, States Government knew about the threat of domestic attack. Puzzle solving work
includes: 1) the hijacker story, 2) what the United States Government knew and when they kne
it' and 3) what the Joint Inquiry Staff now knows.

November 1992-March 2001: Senior Civilian, Office of Intelligence Review,

Inspector General, Department of Defense
Allegations of Unauthorized Imagery Release. Completed to final draft phase a project that
responded to a Director of Central Intelligence request to determine the facts and circumstances
concerning an imagery release issue, conducted jointly with the Inspector General, CIA. The
classified report detailed issue history since 1986 and detailed the facts concerning the allegation.
Puzzle solved: What was improperly released and how.'
Superior Civilian Service Award

Effectiveness of Signals Research and Target Development within the National Security
Agency. Project assessed the strategy, standards, policies, procedures and directives for
implementation of signals research and target development, worldwide. Problem solved: How
NS A corporately planned for such research and development.
Report of the Year Award

Intelligence Community Support for Determining the Fate of Commander Speicher.

Project0responded to a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence request and was conducted
jointly with the Inspector General, CIA. The classified report detailed the history of the Speicher
case from 1991 to the present. Puzzle solved: Sequence of events in the first hours of the
Speicher loss and how erroneous joint operations reporting became institutionalized.
Individual Achievement Award

\w of the 1998 National Intelligence Estimate on POW/MIA Issues and the Charges
Levied By a Critical Assessment of the Estimate, a joint project with the Inspector General,
CIA Project responded to a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence request and examined tne
Vietnam-era POW issue from 1973 to the present and found no credible evidence to contravene a
Hous- of Representatives special cornr--.ee report in 1975 that no Americans were being held
st their'will in Southeast Asia. Problem solved: Inability of the Senate Select Cornmir.ee.
 >©W/MIA to resolved conflicting judgments by subjecting case data in nearly 300 controversial
cases to rigorous, structured review.
President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency Award for Excellence
Intelligence Support to Joint Counter-Proliferation Operations. Project focused on Defense
agencies, Services and Combatant Commands to determine if intelligence was adequate to
support pi arming of counter-proliferation strategies and combatant theater plans concerning
weapons of mass destruction. Problem solved: Established an all-source baseline by cataloging
all reporting within the Defense Intelligence Production Program.
Report of the Year and Team of the Year Award
Report to the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses,
Allegations "of Prior Intelligence Community Knowledge of Iraqi Chemical Weapons
. Storage at Khamisiyah. Project reviewed extensive documentary and testimonial evidence and
concluded there was no prior knowledge. Problem addressed: Review and display of
unorganized archival tactical data and historical imagery processing requests to conclusively
refute the allegation. . ' "'
. . - Team Work Award
Evaluation of the DoD Response to the Brothers to the Rescue Incident, Phase I. At the
separate request of Congressman Burton and Senator Helms, project focused on whether Cuban
fighter aircraft pursued a surviving civilian aircraft north of the 24th parallel and came within
three minutes flying time of the continental United States and concluded the fighters did neither.
Puzzles solved included:
• Second-by-second assessment of thousands of raw radar returns, hundreds of electronic
intelligence reports, and dozens of intercepted communications in the thirty minutes after
the shootdown to refute all allegations that Cuban aircraft pursued a surviving aircraft
and approached within three minutes flying time of the United States coast; and
• Line-by-line reassessment of a Government-released transcript of the shootdown and an
alternative version developed on the internet, in combination with independent civilian
assessments, to establish a revised transcript that refuted multiple allegations of
conspiracy and Government failure.
Evaluation of the DoD Response to the Brothers to the Rescue Incident, Phase n. Project
focused on aii activity over the Florida Straits from 1990 to the day prior to the shoot-down of
the unarmed civilian aircraft. The analysis compared daily activity of the Cuban Air Force, the
Brothers to the Rescue, and the United States Air Force and established the pattern of Cuban
response to exile group air activity and the United States response to Cuban air activity. Puzzles
solved include:
• Day-by-day, rninute-by-minute assessment of multiple sources of technical data for the
five years preceding the shootdown to conclusively establish for the first time the
relationship among the flight activities of the two governments and the rescuers; and .
• Resolved a specific allegation that United States fighter aircraft were airborne over the
Strait of Florida at the time of the shootdown. Given a sighting reported by the rescue
organization, found in the raw radar data the track of four fighter aircraft that were on a
training run over the Straits coincident with the shootdown.
Team Work and Report of the Year Award

Inspection of the National Reconnaissance Office, Joint 1G, DoD aad IG. CIA Report
p-^j^^- ->v Tj^i^^d the orocesse 1 ^ and """chani"—~ used to manass and administer N~?_0 resources
and programs. Problem solved: Defined the delegations and authorities of the National
Reconnaissance Office to establish its status as a Defense agency and its relationship to the
Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency.
The 1985 Zona Rosa Massacre and its Aftermath. Evaluation addressed Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence concerns regarding the!985 assassination of four U.S. Marines in El
Salvador. Conducted jointly by the Defense, Justice, State and CIA Inspectors General. Briefed
senior National Security Council staff members, the Chairman, President's Intelligence
Oversight Board, and Senator Shelby. Puzzles solved included:
• Detailed description of a substantial and rapid United States military response executed
as two consecutive nighttime, long-distance, armed rehearsal flights;
• Complex spreadsheet analysis that clearly depicted the relationships among the several
components of the perpetrator group.
Report of the Year and Meritorious Civilian Service Award
Reports to the Secretary of Defense and the President's Intelligence Oversight Board on
DoD Activities in Guatemala. Two separate reports documented DoD intelligence and
operational involvement in Guatemala since 1980. Puzzle solved: A depiction of the complex
relationship among disparate intelligence reports involving multiple alleged victims, in
particular, a U. S. citizen and the spouse of another U. S. citizen. Over 40 boxes of documents
were reduced to uncover the relationship.
Report of the Year and Team of the Year Award
Series of reports to the Assistant Chief of Staff, Command, Control, Communications,
Computer and Intelligence, HQ, USMC.
• Civilians in the Intelligence Management Function. Compared civilian intelligence
management of the Army, Navy, and Air Force to Marine Corps practice. Options were
developed and a prioritized list of additional positions required to manage intelligence
was provided. Puzzle solved. Effective depiction of other service data to the
Commandant of the Marine Corps and his staff to support personnel decisions.
Team of the Year Award

• The Signals Intelligence/Ground Electronic Warfare Force. Specified, in detail, the

current status and future needs of Marine Corps signals intelligence. Modeled the signals
intelligence function area using the Universal Joint Task List to determine national,
theater, operational and tactical tasks. Problems solved: Depicted in detail the signals
intelligence function using modified IDEF techniques and a standard graphics
application. Provided a "futures" chart that identified future challenges to traditional
signals intelligence collection.
• Field Validation of "A First Look." Quantified the message in the qualitative "A First
Look" report and provided the Assistant Chief of Staff the specifics needed to convince
senior leadership that serious attention must be given to the intelligence function.
Problem solved: The Assistant Chief of Staff convinced senior leadership that the
intelligence function was broken and that immediate attention was required. The net
result, several years later, was the creation of two general officer intelligence billets
where none existed before.
• k- AFirst Look." Specified the long- term commitment required of the USMC to
improve the intelligence function and its support to operators. Problem solved: Provided
the Assistant Chief of Staff a viable blueprint for further action.
 Other Prior Experience
Instructor, Fairfax County, Virginia School District
• Substitute taught while engaged in doctoral-level studies at George Mason University ;
• Regular substitute at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in the
mathematics and computer science departments, and elsewhere as required
• Developed the trust of permanent faculty to actually conduct regular classroom activities,
including instruction, in the absence of assigned faculty .
Assistant Deputy Director for JCS Support, DIA, J2/JCS
• Operated the National Military Intelligence Center (NMIC)
• Served as DIA member on the consortium of Washington Area Operation Centers
• Transformed the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS) from a
concept to a programmed capability
. •• Built the current NMIC physical plant and integrated J2 crisis management activities with
the Joint Chiefs 6'f Staff crisis management system

Director of Evaluation and Standardization, United States Army Intelligence Center and
School (Colonel, 0-6)
• Traveled world-wide to assess the effectiveness of individual and unit intelligence
training at all Army intelligence units, strategic and tactical
• Facilitated annual senior officer conferences to address emerging issues
• Observed and interacted with that generation of future Army intelligence leaders; among
others, Jim King, Keith Alexander, and Bobby Noonan
• Worked for that generation's Army Intelligence leaders; particularly Tom Weinstein.

Director of Intelligence, Intelligence Center Pacific (IPAC) (Lieutenant Colonel, 0-5)

• First Army officer and first Lieutenant Colonel to be the Director of Intelligence for the
precursor to the modern day Joint Intelligence Centers
• Supervised task forces to monitor the Iran-Iraq War and the Falklands War, at CINC
direction
• IP AC was first recipient of the Joint Unit Meritorious Commendation Medal, personally
presented by General Vessey, then Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Early Career
• Trained and assigned as a United State Army Counterintelligence Corps agent, Thai
linguist, and foreign intelligence case officer, 1961-1968
• Combat arms tour with the Seventh Cavalry Division, Korea, 1964
• Combat tour with the 525 Military Intelligence Group in Vietnam as a Detachment
Commander and Battalion Operations Officer, 1969
• Staff officer, United States Intelligence Center, responsible for the world-wide conduct
of Counterintelligence Services, included technical inspections and surveys,
Counterintelligence inspections and surveys, and penetration inspections, 1970-72.
• Special working group member to determine the aftermath organization of United States
Army intelligence following allegations of U. S. Army spying on civilians.
• Military assistance officer, Joint United States Advisory Group, Bangkok, Thailand with
responsibility for national level collection and security and service-level intelligence
organizations, 1972-1974
• Semor Army officer and Political Warfare Instructor. United States Naval Amphibious
School, Coronado. Calif^mii. I -•"--* : --?v
 • Adjunct Professor, Reading Efficiency and Effectiveness, National University, San
Diego, California, 1976-1980
Education :
• GeolE, Colorado School of Mines, professional mining geology degree
• MBA, Pepperdine University
• Doctoral Studies, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University,
Comprehensive Exams passed
• Operations Research and Systems Analysis, Army Management School
• Army Command and General Staff College