Ishmael Jones was born on 15 December 1960 and is the pseudonym used by a former CIA officer.
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12 Facts About Ishmael Jones
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Ishmael Jones resigned from the CIA and became a leading proponent of American intelligence reform, with special emphasis on the improvement of human source intelligence collection.
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Ishmael Jones is a former deep cover case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Ishmael Jones is the author of the book The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture and many articles on intelligence reform.
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Ishmael Jones believes that improvement of American intelligence capabilities is necessary to protect Americans and American allies.
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Ishmael Jones attended universities in the US and served as an officer in the US Marine Corps.
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Ishmael Jones resigned from the CIA in good standing in order to work toward intelligence reform.
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Ishmael Jones recommends dramatic reductions in the layers of managers and administrators and restructuring of the CIA's chain of command to clarify precisely who is in charge of any given operation.
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In 2008, Ishmael Jones published The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture describing his work against weapons of mass destruction proliferators and terrorists, and offering solutions to intelligence reform in an appendix.
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In 2011, US district court judge Gerald Lee ruled that Ishmael Jones had violated the law by not properly going through CIA's pre-publication review process.
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Ishmael Jones claimed the process was deliberately stalled by the CIA.
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