James Richard Hougan was born on George James Edwards on October 14,1942 and is an American author, investigative reporter and documentary film producer.
11 Facts About Jim Hougan
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Jim Hougan was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from William Horlick High School in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1960.
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Jim Hougan wed Carolyn Johnson and began work as a newspaper reporter and photographer for the Prince George's County Sentinel in the Washington metropolitan area.
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Jim Hougan testified at the trial of Mark Knops, editor of the Madison Kaleidoscope, a newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.
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At the time, Jim Hougan was helping Norman Mailer in his research for what became the latter's CIA novel, Harlot's Ghost.
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In early 1991, Jim Hougan was retained as a private investigator by AFL-CIO's Industrial Union Department and by the United Steelworkers of America.
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Jim Hougan discovered that the plant from which the workers had been locked-out was secretly controlled by Marc Rich, a fugitive billionaire and commodities broker then resident in Zug, Switzerland.
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In 1993, Jim Hougan became one of the first, if not the first, American journalist to return to Beirut after years of internecine warfare, kidnappings and bombings.
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Jim Hougan continued to work for 60 Minutes over the next two years, after which he returned to writing books.
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Jim Hougan's films include The Vodka Dons, a documentary for the Discovery Channel about the Russian Mafia in the United States.
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Jim Hougan served as executive producer for the 1982 documentary, Frank Terpil: Confessions of a Dangerous Man.